README

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Pyrseas
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Pyrseas provides a framework and utilities to upgrade and maintain a
PostgreSQL database.

Features
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- Outputs a YAML/JSON description of a PostgreSQL database's tables
  and other objects (metadata), suitable for storing in a version
  control repository

- Generates SQL statements to modify a database so that it will match
  an input YAML/JSON specification

- (planned) Generates a flexible web application to update PostgreSQL
  tables

Requirements
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- PostgreSQL 8.4 or higher

- Python 2.6 or higher

- (planned) Werkzeug

- (planned) Jinja2

License
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Pyrseas is free (libre) software and is distributed under the BSD
license.  Please see the LICENSE file for details.