The decision I’m trying to make is where I want to do schema changes. I need a schema update to happen in the database, in the model definition, and I’d also like to generate a doctrine migration for that change too. I would really prefer to only have to define schema changes in one place, not three.
Right now I’m thinking of writing all schema changes only as doctrine migrations. I then have a command line tool that runs all pending migrations and does a database->model sync. Is this reliable enough to work? I’m using postgresql if it matters.
The standard flow is to generate an empty doctrine migrations, add the schema changes run the migrations and create your entities. So you’ll only need to modify it at 2 places.
This works perfectly with my set-up. Never had any problems with it if you check your down statement at least.