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		dragonwriter on Sept 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PostgreSQL 14 Yeah, the comment I was responding to addressed two different kinds of migration—schema migration and version upgrades—and my comment really applies more to schema migration than version upgrades; more support for smoothing the latter in the engine makes sense.

JohnBooty on Sept 30, 2021 [–]

Agreed: Postgres' transactional schema migration is freaking sublime.

I used and abused it pretty hard at my previous gig and now it's hard to imagine ever living without it.

At my gig before THAT, we had MySQL and schema migrations were so very very painful.

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