I Don't Use Down Migrations
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perrygeo
4 months ago
Great article. I can't imagine a real world scenario where I'd ever use a down migration in production. Even if you completely botch a migration, the next step is to write a new migration to correct the situation! "Rolling back" a commit is not even logically possible; the database schema history only moves forward.
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