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Is there an easy way to see the actual SQL generated by a rails migration?
I have a situation where a migration to change a column type worked on my local development machine by partially failed on the production server.
My postgreSQL versions are different between local and production (7 on production, 8 on local) so I’m hoping by looking at the SQL generated on the successful migration locally I can work out a SQL statement to run on production to fix things….
I did some digging and found another way this can be achieved too… (This way only gives you the SQL so it was a bit easier for me to read)
Postgresql will log all the queries executed if you put this line in your config file: (there’s an example which has been commented out in the “What to log” section of the config file)
Then I rolled back and re-ran my migration locally to find the SQL I was looking for.
This method also gives you the SQL in a format where you can easily paste it into something like PGAdmin’s query builder and mess around with it.