Updates to custom-transformers doc

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Elizabeth Engelman 2019-05-13 13:57:20 -05:00
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@ -54,11 +54,12 @@ these are run independently, instead of using `composeAndExecute`, a couple of t
* It is necessary that the .so file was built with the same exact dependencies that are present in the execution
environment, i.e. we need to `compose` and `execute` the plugin .so file with the same exact version of vulcanizeDB.
* The plugin migrations are run during the plugin's composition. As such, if `execute` is used to run a prebuilt .so
in a different environment than the one it was composed in then the migrations for that plugin will first need to
be manually ran against that environment's Postgres database.
in a different environment than the one it was composed in, then the database structure will need to be loaded
into the environment's Postgres database. This can either be done by manually loading the plugin's schema into
Postgres, or by manually running the plugin's migrations.
* The `compose` and `composeAndExecute` commands assume you are in the vulcanizdb directory located at your system's
`$GOPATH`, and that all of the transformer repositories for building the plugin are present at their `$GOPATH` directories.
`$GOPATH`, and that the plugin dependencies are present at their `$GOPATH` directories.
* The `execute` command does not require the plugin transformer dependencies be located in their `$GOPATH` directories,
instead it expects a .so file (of the name specified in the config file) to be in