Using TypeORM migrations, how do I specify a particular connection? - database-migration

Question

I'm using TypeORM and trying to run a migration on a test connection. In my ormconfig.json, I specify two separate connections as follows:
[{
"name": "default",
"type": "postgres",
"host": "localhost",
"port": 5432,
"username": "username",
"password": "",
"database": "database",
"entities": [
"build/entity/**/*.js"
],
"migrations": [
"build/migration/**/*.js"
],
"synchronize": false,
"autoSchemaSync": true,
"logging": false,
"cli": {
"migrationsDir": "src/migration",
"entitiesDir": "src/entity",
"subscribersDir": "src/subscriber"
}
},
{
"name": "test",
"type": "postgres",
"host": "localhost",
"port": 5432,
"username": "username",
"password": "",
"database": "database-test",
"entities": [
"build/entity/**/*.js"
],
"migrations": [
"build/migration/**/*.js"
],
"synchronize": false,
"autoSchemaSync": true,
"logging": false,
"cli": {
"migrationsDir": "src/migration",
"entitiesDir": "src/entity",
"subscribersDir": "src/subscriber"
}
}]
How do I specify the connection with name test from the TypeORM CLI? I'm trying things like:
typeorm migrations:run -c test
but I'm not having any luck. Is there a better way to do this?

Answer 1

Though you said you weren't having luck with that, that's exactly what I do. Perhaps some supporting information will help. My exact migration command looks like this (I'm using TypeScript and so I'm running things through ts-node first):
$(npm bin)/ts-node $(npm bin)/typeorm migration:run -c test
in my ormconfig.json, I've specified that there's a default and test connection, just like yours.
Perhaps it's as simple as saying "migration" rather than "migrations" like you have? When I use "migrations" I just get the help information printed out. Is that what you're seeing?