Mighty morphin power elephant

Back in the 2013 I started playing with sqlalchemy to create a simple extractor from heterogeneous systems to be pushed in postgresql.
I decided to give the project a name which recalled the transformation and I called pg_chameleon.

To be honest I didn’t like sqlalchemy.  Like any other ORM adds an interface to the data layer with a mental approach to the data itself. I lost the interest to developing a migrator very soon, and after all there are thousands of similar tools thousands of times better than mine (e.g. the awesome pgloader)

However recently I revamped the project after discovering a python librarycapable to read the mysql replication protocol. In few weeks I cleaned all the sqlalchemy stuff, rebuilt the metadata extraction using the information_schema and finally I had an usable tool to replicate the data across the two systems.

I’ve also changed the license from GPL to the 2 clause BSD.

The tool requires testing. I’m absolutely sure is full of bugs and issues, but it seems to work quite nice.

Some key aspects:

• Is developed in python 2.7. Bear with me, I’ll build a port to python 3.x when/if the project will get to an initial  release.
• I use tabs (4 space tabs). Bear with me again. I tried to use spaces and I almost thrown my laptop out of the window
• setup.py is not working. I’ll fix this as soon as I’ll do a release.
• Yes, the sql part use the “hungarian notation” and the keywords are uppercase with strange indentation on the statements .  
• The DDL are not yet replicated. I’m thinking to a clever approach to the problem.

That’s it. If you want to test it please do and try to break the tool :)

The tool is on github here: https://github.com/the4thdoctor/pg_chameleon/