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By jessevondoom:

Honestly? Because I stopped it, and the auto-generated SQL needed tweaks and was hard to check manually. I'm all for automation, but SQLfairy was only partial automation, leading (me at least) to more mistakes than utility. (We had to tweak options and manually convert to SQLite natives.)

I guess my thinking was that since changing schema would be discouraged unless totally necessary and would also require re-writing PDO and creating a PDO upgrade it could be something we do manually with a high degree of success as long as the actual schema files themselves are well organized.

If you disagree I'm all for automation as long as we can get it to a point where it's complete automation — even if that means a little more work up front creating a master schema that'll play nicer with the conversions so there's no editing when complete. I don't disagree with your thinking at all, but the truth was that SQLfairy wasn't getting us all the way there.

But I'm dumb with this stuff and will defer to you.