Roadmap: Integrate Percona Toolkit?

[ghost]

I've been using RM for a couple years now, and I've got tables in production with millions of rows. Adding a column these days is downright painful just because it is slow and I think it locks the table.

Percona Toolkit (https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/LATEST/pt-online-schema-change.html) can do online table alterations with a command line interface, but I like the way RM keeps track of migrations.

I wonder if there might be a way to hook the two up? I want to use RM for all migrations, but where there are super large tables, RM could use Percona?

[ruckus]

Wow that sounds pretty cool.

Ultimately sounds like it would be a pretty big job to transparently integrate with pt-online-schema-change .

I have not used this package in years and to be honest its kind of abandoned at this point. If I were to do something in PHP I would probably use Laravel which has its own migration infrastructure. I say all of this to essentially indicate that I'm not in a position to make major changes to this library, but if someone wants to pick up the mantle I'm more than happy to pass it on!