Existing Declarative PostgreSQL Schema Tools Fail to Parse Certain SQL Statements
Developers using declarative schema-migration tools like sqldef hit SQL statements the parser can't handle, forcing them to build or adopt alternative tools with broader SQL support. This points to a persistent gap in parsing coverage across the declarative schema-migration tooling space.
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