Column Encoding Utility about amazon-redshift-utils

[rajivchodisetti]

In addition to the above 2 options , there should be an additional option to provide list of tables as an argument , as of now am baby sitting and re-creating tables one by one and then applying required permissions

[jklukas]

Being able to recreate grants was also an important feature for me. My team ended up contributing to the Redshift sqlalchemy dialect to implement some more general-purpose reflection functionality, and we use that in our shiftmanager suite of admin tools to perform migrations.

There unfortunately doesn't appear to be any straightforward option (besides pg_dump) for recreating the grants. We had to write some logic to parse permissions strings, as captured in https://github.com/SimpleFinance/shiftmanager/blob/master/shiftmanager/privileges.py

I'd love to see some similar logic applied in the column encoding utility (and you're free to use any of shiftmanager's logic directly if it ends up being useful here).

[razzakulchowdhury]

When DDL is generated by this Python script for compressed table it changes table distribution style from KEY to EVEN. Seems it’s a big snag! Whereas dist_style = EVEN hasn’t been changed by the script, it remains as it is.

[IanMeyers]

Can you give an example of a table definition where you see this happen? I've not been able to reproduce the issue that you cite on a table with a specified distribution key.

[IanMeyers]

Regarding table grants, I've opened #240

[IanMeyers]

Regarding multi-table analysis, I've opened #241

[IanMeyers]

Fixed in 49d708e