README.rdoc in taps-0.2.4 vs README.rdoc in taps-0.2.5

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@@ -2,12 +2,18 @@ A simple database agnostic import/export app to transfer data to/from a remote database. == Usage: Server +Here's how you start a taps server + $ taps server postgres://localdbuser:localdbpass@localhost/dbname httpuser httppassword +You can also specify an encoding in the database url + + $ taps server mysql://localdbuser:localdbpass@localhost/dbname?encoding=latin1 httpuser httppassword + == Usage: Client When you want to pull down a database from a taps server $ taps pull postgres://dbuser:dbpassword@localhost/dbname http://httpuser:httppassword@example.com:5000 @@ -19,9 +25,10 @@ == Known Issues * Blob data may not transfer properly, I suspect that SQLite3 is modifying some native ruby objects. * Foreign Keys get lost in the schema transfer * Large tables (>1 million rows with a large number of columns) get slower as the offset gets larger. This is due to it being inefficient having large offset values in queries. +* Character encoding problems should be more transparent but they're not, it usually involves looking at the server log to see the error. == Meta Maintained by Ricardo Chimal, Jr. (ricardo at heroku dot com)