DACPAC for PostgreSQL: Where Atlas Fills the Gap
· 13 min read
If you've searched for "DACPAC for PostgreSQL," you already know the answer: there isn't one. DACPAC is a
Microsoft file format, built into SQL Server Data Tools and deployed with SqlPackage, and it has no
equivalent outside the SQL Server ecosystem. What you're actually looking for isn't the file format, it's
the workflow: define the schema once, let the tool diff it against a live database, and deploy the result
without hand-written migration scripts. Atlas gives you that workflow for PostgreSQL.
