Confiture 🍓

PostgreSQL migrations, sweetly done.

Build from DDL. Adopt on day one against a database that already has migrations applied. Preflight every deploy by replaying the pending migrations against a parallel database, rolled back. Sync production data with PII anonymization.

In 30 seconds

# 1. You already have a database at migration 004 (applied by hand or by another tool).
#    Tell Confiture about that history without re-running the SQL:
$ confiture migrate baseline --through 004 -c db/environments/production.yaml
  ✅ 001 create_users (marked as applied)
  ✅ 002 create_orders (marked as applied)
  ✅ 003 add_user_email (marked as applied)
  ✅ 004 add_user_preferences (marked as applied)
✅ Marked 4 migration(s) as applied, skipped 0 already applied

# 2. Machine-readable proof that the tracking is healthy:
$ confiture migrate status -c db/environments/production.yaml --format json | jq '.applied | length'
4

# 3. Preflight: replay the pending migrations on a parallel DB, inside a rollback.
$ confiture migrate preflight --against "$PREFLIGHT_URL" -c db/environments/production.yaml
Execution check: 1 migration(s) against postgresql://preflight-host/app

  ✓  20260520143015  add_user_bio                              (0.02s)

  ✓ All 1 migration(s) passed.
  (Rolled back — preflight DB unchanged)
exit 0

That's the loop. Baseline once → status to confirm → preflight every deploy.

Already have migrations?

The single biggest reason migration tools fail adoption is the day-one cliff: existing tables already exist, so any tool that tries to apply migrations from scratch crashes on the first CREATE TABLE. Confiture's answer is migrate baseline:

confiture migrate baseline --through <last-applied-version>

The walkthrough — including failure modes, the integration test that backs the recipe, and what tb_confiture ends up looking like — is in docs/guides/legacy-bootstrap.md.

No `db/schema/` directory? That works too.

confiture migrate up, down, down-to, status, current, baseline, and preflight are the migration runner — they don't require a db/schema/ directory (migrate current prints the latest applied revision as a narrow "what's deployed?" contract; migrate down --steps N rolls back relatively while migrate down-to <revision> rolls back to a specific revision, refusing atomically if any required .down.sql is missing). The "Build from DDL" pitch above the fold sells one of confiture's four strategies; the other three (incremental migrations, production sync, schema-to-schema FDW migration) work against a project whose only source of truth is the migration chain itself.

If you're evaluating confiture against Flyway / Alembic / dbmate / sqlx-cli as a pure migration runner, skip confiture build and use everything else. Walkthrough: docs/guides/02-incremental-migrations.md.

When to use Confiture?

Capability	Confiture	Flyway	Alembic	dbmate	sqlx-cli	plain psql
Source of truth	DDL files or migration chain	migration chain	model classes	migration chain	migration chain	DDL files
Tracking table	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no
Rollback (`down.sql`)	yes	paid	yes	yes	yes	no
Preflight against a copy DB	yes (replayed, rolled back)	no	no	no	no	no
Build from scratch in <1s	yes	no	no	no	no	yes (manual)
Production sync + anonymization	yes	no	no	no	no	no
Zero-downtime via FDW	yes	no	no	no	no	no
Ecosystem maturity / stars	early	very mature	mature	mature	mature	n/a

Note on "source of truth": confiture can run as a pure migration tool against a project that has no db/schema/ directory — the DDL workflow is opt-in. See No db/schema/ directory? above.

Confiture wins on build-from-DDL, replayed preflight, and production sync. It loses on ecosystem age — Flyway and Alembic have a decade of community knowledge. Pick honestly.

Adoption checklist

Situation	Recommended tool
1 environment + 1 contributor, schema rarely changes	plain `psql`
2+ environments, schema changes weekly	Confiture, Flyway, Alembic, or dbmate
Multi-agent / AI-driven development on shared schemas	Confiture with the pgGit plugin (`plugins/fraiseql-confiture-pggit/`)
You have a migration chain (no `db/schema/`) and want preflight + tracking	Confiture (use everything except `confiture build`)
You want `db/schema/` to be source of truth, not a migration chain	Confiture
You need zero-downtime schema swaps with `postgres_fdw`	Confiture (Medium 4)
You're committed to SQLAlchemy ORM	Alembic
You're committed to a JVM stack	Flyway

CI integration

A migrate preflight gate on every PR, a migrate up step on deploy. Exit codes are semantic, so the CI configuration stays simple:

# .github/workflows/db.yml
name: DB

on:
  pull_request:
    paths:
      - 'db/**'
  push:
    branches: [main]

jobs:
  preflight:
    if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    services:
      postgres:
        image: postgres:16
        env: { POSTGRES_PASSWORD: x }
        ports: ['5432:5432']
        options: >-
          --health-cmd pg_isready --health-interval 10s
          --health-timeout 5s --health-retries 5
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v3
      - run: uv pip install --system fraiseql-confiture
      - name: Restore production snapshot to preflight DB
        run: ./scripts/restore-snapshot.sh   # your own; pg_restore from S3/GCS
      - name: Confiture preflight
        env:
          PREFLIGHT_URL: postgresql://postgres:x@localhost:5432/preflight
        run: |
          confiture migrate preflight \
            --against "$PREFLIGHT_URL" \
            -c db/environments/preflight.yaml \
            --format json --output preflight.json
      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: preflight-report
          path: preflight.json

  deploy:
    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    environment: production
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v3
      - run: uv pip install --system fraiseql-confiture
      # No YAML needed in CI — the migrate family reads DATABASE_URL directly
      # (or pass --database-url "$DSN"). See the connection-source docs below.
      - run: confiture migrate up
        env:
          DATABASE_URL: ${{ secrets.PROD_DATABASE_URL }}

migrate up/down/status/verify/preflight accept --database-url <dsn> (or read CONFITURE_DATABASE_URL / DATABASE_URL) so runtime-resolved DSNs need no temp YAML — precedence and details in the CLI reference.

Exit codes are a documented stability contract — see the exit-code reference. The most operationally important: 2 tracking table absent, 3 DB connection failed, 5 config invalid, 6 lock contention. For migrate preflight's drift-gate codes specifically, see the dry-run guide.

Migrations that open their own SAVEPOINTs, use psycopg's conn.transaction(), or wrap DO $$ … EXCEPTION WHEN … $$ blocks are supported under all three modes. The rules a migration body must follow for the SAVEPOINT-based rollback to stay clean are documented in the transaction & SAVEPOINT contract.

Python project snippet

Add Confiture as a dev dependency. pglast (PostgreSQL's own parser) comes with it since 0.50.0.

# pyproject.toml
[dependency-groups]
dev = [
  "fraiseql-confiture>=0.50",
  "pytest>=8",
]

# justfile
default:
    just --list

db-build:
    confiture build --env local

db-up:
    confiture migrate up

db-status:
    confiture migrate status

db-preflight:
    confiture migrate preflight --against "$PREFLIGHT_URL"

Or as a Makefile:

db-build:
	confiture build --env local

db-up:
	confiture migrate up

db-status:
	confiture migrate status

Library API

Confiture is a CLI first, but the migrator is fully usable from Python:

from confiture import Migrator

with Migrator.from_config("db/environments/prod.yaml") as m:
    status = m.status()
    if status.has_pending:
        result = m.up()
        print(f"Applied {len(result.applied)} migrations")

Building on confiture

What confiture knows about a schema is a public seam, confiture.platform: read a schema from DDL or from a live database into one model, diff two schemas into typed changes, order tables by their foreign keys, say which columns a writer supplies and what each must respect, and write, apply and validate seed files. Every name and signature is pinned by a contract test, and no signature exposes a parser or driver type.

from confiture.platform import dependency_order, parse_schema, writable_columns

model = parse_schema(env="local")
for table in dependency_order(model):
    print(table.display, [c.name for c in writable_columns(model, table)])

confiture schema dump-model writes the same model as byte-stable JSON. Its consumers: fraisier, which drives confiture at deploy time through the adapter contract, and fraiseql-semis (in development), which generates seed data on the seam. See Building on confiture and the platform API reference.

The Four Strategies

Strategy	Use Case	Command
Build from DDL	Fresh databases, testing, CI	`confiture build --env local`
Incremental Migrations	Existing databases, production	`confiture migrate up`
Production Sync	Copy data with PII anonymization	`confiture sync --from prod --anonymize users.email`
Zero-Downtime	Complex migrations via FDW	`confiture migrate schema-to-schema`

Documentation

Start here

Getting started — first 5 minutes.
Legacy bootstrap guide — adopting on an existing database.
Prerequisites — PostgreSQL version, roles, secret stores.

Guides

Build from DDL
Incremental Migrations — up, down, rollback.
Parallel, cacheable CI provisioning — build --dump artifacts, test-db template/clone, per-worker xdist fixtures, slim seed profiles.
Production Data Sync
Zero-Downtime Migrations
Dry-Run + Preflight
Replica-safe migrations — replica_001 / PFLIGHT_REPLICA_* forward-compatibility lint under streaming replication.
Bootstrap — confiture bootstrap for one-shot env ownership setup.
Superuser Migrations — requires_superuser = True + migrate apply-as recovery workflow.
Function Uniqueness — func_001 catches duplicate CREATE FUNCTION across DDL files.
Security-Definer Lint — sec_002 flags SECURITY DEFINER functions/procedures that don't pin search_path (CVE-2018-1058); static DDL scan and live pg_proc path; --emit-remediation generates ALTER scripts.
Named Schemas
Hooks
pgGit branching and multi-agent coordination — a plugin since 1.16, not part of confiture's core.

Reference

Tracking table (tb_confiture)
Transaction & SAVEPOINT contract — what migration bodies may and may not do under the wrapping transaction.
Exit-code convention — the stable, wrapper-facing exit codes.
CLI
Configuration YAML
Complete feature list

For agents and tooling

JSON schemas are published for the --format json output of every command, which tests/unit/json_schemas/test_every_json_command_has_a_schema.py holds to. They ship in the package (python/confiture/schemas/) and are mirrored under docs/reference/json-schemas/, one section per command in docs/reference/json-schemas.md; a test asserts the mirror equals the packaged source, and each schema is validated against payloads the command wrote.
On an error path in --format json mode, the migrate family emits a structured error envelope on stdout — {"ok": false, "error": {code, message, severity, actionable, details, migration, file, line}} — and exits with the exit code for that error. The full code list and the envelope schema are in the error-code codebook.
confiture migrate validate --list-patterns --format json exposes the full idempotency-detection catalog (read-only, no DB / config / migrations directory needed).
Quiet-success ambiguities surface advisory hints in payload["hints"] (or on stderr in text mode) — exit codes are unaffected.

Contributing

git clone https://github.com/fraiseql/confiture.git
cd confiture
uv sync --all-extras
uv run pytest

See CONTRIBUTING.md and CLAUDE.md.

Author & License

Vibe-engineered by Lionel Hamayon 🍓

Making jam from strawberries, one migration at a time. 🍓→🍯

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