Do you use PostgreSQL and truly believe it’s “the world’s most advanced open source database” and that its upcoming 9.3 release will make it even more awesome?
Do you also use Python and believe it’s “an easy to learn, powerful programming language” with “elegant syntax” that makes it an ideal language for developing applications and tools around PostgreSQL, such as Pyrseas?
Then we could use your help. For starters, we want to add support for the MATERIALIZED VIEWs and EVENT TRIGGERs coming up in PG 9.3.
We have also been requested to add the capability to load and maintain “static data” (relatively small, unchanging tables) as part of yamltodb, so that it can be integrated more easily into database version control workflows.
And for the next release, Pyrseas 0.7, we’d like to include the first version of the database augmentation tool which will support declarative implementation of business logic in the database–starting off with audit trail columns. Some work has been done on this already, but it needs integration with the current code and tests.
Or perhaps coding is not your forte, but you’re really good at explaining and documenting technical “stuff”. Then you could give us a hand with revamping the docs, maybe writing a tutorial so that users have a smooth ride using our tools.
Or maybe you have your own ideas as to how improve the PostgreSQL version control experience. We’d love to hear those too.
If you’d like to help, you can fork the code on GitHub, join the mailing list and introduce yourself, or leave a comment below.
Filed under: PostgreSQL, Python, Version control
