ForgeSchema Builds Indexes Online and Plans Drops and Type Changes

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

ForgeSchema 0.3.0 is out. It’s the first release that isn’t labelled alpha, and the first one that went out on its own: bump the version, push, and CI builds, checks and publishes it once the tests pass on PostgreSQL 16.10 and 17.6.

Three things changed. Indexes can be built without blocking writes. Check constraints are understood. And drops and type conversions are finally possible, but only when you ask for them by name.

ForgeSchema Second Alpha Handles Real PostgreSQL Schemas

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The first alpha could only read a schema if it had no defaults, no identity columns, no unique constraints and no foreign keys. That’s almost no real database. Point it at a typical app schema and it said “unsupported” and stopped.

v0.2.0-alpha.1 fixes that.

ForgeSchema now reads and writes varchar, char and numeric columns, defaults like now(), current_date and gen_random_uuid(), identity columns, unique constraints, unique indexes and foreign keys with their ON DELETE and ON UPDATE actions. Inspect, plan, apply and verify all understand them. The shop example uses every one: customers with an identity key and a unique email, orders that reference customers, order lines that cascade when an order goes.

Release on ForgeSchema.com

ForgeSchema Builds Indexes Online and Plans Drops and Type Changes

ForgeSchema Second Alpha Handles Real PostgreSQL Schemas