• Runs migrations in transactions. That means that if a migration fails, it will be safely rolled back.
• Tries to return helpful error messages.
• Stores migration version details in table schema_migrations. This table will be auto-generated.
• Safe to run concurrently (schema_migrations table is locked during migrations)

Each SQL statement MUST end with semicolon (;) FOLLOWED BY NEWLINE ! Whole migration will be executed inside transaction by default. Place SQL between "-- TXBEGIN" and "-- TXEND" comments for custom transaction:

• you CAN have multiple separate transactions in single migration
• any SQL not wrapped into TXBEGIN - TXEND will be executed without transaction. Add "-- NOTX" comment above all SQL to disable default transaction. NOTE: it's redundant when TXBEGIN/TXEND is used.

migrate -url mysql://user@tcp(host:port)/database -path ./db/migrations create add_field_to_table
migrate -url mysql://user@tcp(host:port)/database -path ./db/migrations up
migrate help # for more info

See full DSN (Data Source Name) documentation.

The MySQL driver will set a TLS config if the following env variables are set:

• MYSQL_SERVER_CA
• MYSQL_CLIENT_KEY
• MYSQL_CLIENT_CERT

TODO: deprecate - library code should not rely on environment variables

• Matthias Kadenbach, https://github.com/mattes
• Joseph Buchma, https://github.com/josephbuchma