MySQL Bugs: #40648: Inbound syncronization does nothing

Bug #40648	Inbound syncronization does nothing
Submitted:	11 Nov 2008 19:28	Modified:	8 Feb 2010 14:57
Reporter:	Kevin Peno	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.0.26	OS:	Windows (Vista 64bit)
Assigned to:	Alexander Musienko	CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	CHECKED, syncronization, workbench

Description:
When choosing to syncronize between the design and live database, if you double click the direction and change it pointing inbound (towards the design), no data is syncronized.

How to repeat:
Choose the "database" menu. Select syncronize. Connect to live database. On the SQL Diff Tree page, double click one of the syncro point until the arrow points towards the design schema. Choose next to see no queries in the sync script. Choose Next to see that nothing changed.

Suggested fix:
Add the functionality to allow bidirectional syncronization, or allow user to specify the direction before the alteration script is generated and applied.

Thank you for the bug report.

Just to chip in, this issue is causing me a lot of hassle too.  I may work alter a database from outside workbench, and then find that I have to reverse engineer the whole thing in order to update a simple field change or something.

fixed in repository for 5.1

An entry has been added to the 5.1.19 changelog:

When synchronizing with a live database, if the direction of synchronization was changed to inbound, then the script generated indicated that no inbound changes would be made.