Quickstart

Install DBLift, write one SQL file, preview the statements, then apply them. OSS commands only. About five minutes if a database is already running.

Need Postgres? docker run --name dblift-pg -e POSTGRES_USER=user -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password -e POSTGRES_DB=mydb -p 5432:5432 -d postgres:16

Replace user, password, and mydb — or create that role and database first.

Run every dblift command from the directory that contains migrations/.

1. pip install "dblift[postgresql]"
2. export DBLIFT_DB_URL="postgresql+psycopg://user:password@localhost:5432/mydb"
3. mkdir -p my-database-project/migrations && cd my-database-project
4. dblift validate
5. dblift migrate --dry-run --show-sql
6. dblift migrate
7. dblift info

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