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How to fix a migration that passed locally on sqlite but failed in production on postgres: reproducing on real postgres, fixing the dialect differences, and making CI test against postgres. Use when the local/prod database mismatch hides failures. Not for failures that reproduce on postgres locally.
Recovery when an agent deleted old migration files thinking they were stale, so new environments cannot bootstrap: restoring the files and setting the rule that applied files are never deleted. Use when fresh databases fail to migrate from zero. Not for files that were never applied anywhere.
How to fix a rollback script that references columns that no longer exist because the down migration was never tested: repairing the down migration and adding up/down testing to CI. Use when rollback fails on a stale down migration. Not for rollbacks that fail for data reasons.
Recovery when an agent's idempotency check read the wrong state table (flyway_schema_history instead of alembic_version): reconciling the real state and fixing the agent's procedure to check the tool the app actually uses. Use when a migration was skipped or double-applied because the agent consulted the wrong history…
How to fix a migration file committed with a wrong timestamp prefix so it sorts before an older migration: renaming for timestamp-ordered tools, or fixing the chain for graph-ordered tools. Use when the filename order disagrees with the intended apply order. Not for genuinely conflicting migrations.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent updated the wrong snapshot file in a monorepo: how to scope - docs agent failed: committed generated docs to the wrong directory
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent committed the migration file with a wrong timestamp prefix so it s
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Recovery and prevention after an agent ran prisma migrate dev against a shared staging database and wiped data URIs restoring from backup, and the guardrails that keep migrate dev off shared databases. Use when migrate dev reset a database it should never have touched. Not for migrate deploy issues.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent keeps re-running prisma migrate dev because drift detection flags its own shadow database as drift - [prisma migrate dev hung because the agent couldnt answer the interactive reset-the-database…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent ran prisma migrate dev against the shared staging database and w
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Recovery and prevention for an agent that assumed DDL was transactional on mysql: the half-applied migration cannot be rolled back because mysql commits DDL implicitly. Use when a mysql migration failed midway and left a partial schema. Not for postgres, where transactional DDL usually allows rollback.
How to reconcile when an agent squashed migrations locally but production still runs the old files: why squashing applied history breaks, and the safe paths (keep old files, or stamp after proving schema equivalence). Use when a squash rewrote history that production already recorded. Not for squashes of never-applied…
How to recover when an agent applied migrations out of order, skipping a revision: comparing the state table against the file chain, applying the skipped revision safely, and reconciling when its work is already partially done. Use when the schema is inconsistent because a revision was skipped. Not for branching heads…
A guard playbook for when an agent runs a migration against production because DATABASE_URL pointed at prod: assessing what ran, and building target verification into the agent's procedure so it never happens again. Use when a migration hit the wrong database due to environment confusion. Not for migrations that faile…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent ran the migration against staging and it passed, then the same file failed on prod - production data broke an... - [agent's D1 migration ran against local instead of remote: the --remote flag w…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent ran the migration against production because DATABASE_URL pointed
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - UPGRADE FAILED: another operation (install/upgrade/rollback) is in progress - cassandra error: sstable migration failed - incompatible version after upgrade
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: neo4j error: store migration failed - how to roll back a failed upgrade
Problem outcome: unknown
How to fix "airflow db migrate failed with alembic revision conflict": aligning the airflow version with the database's migration state and re-running the managed migration. Use when airflow's own metadata-database migration fails on revision conflicts, usually after an upgrade skipped versions. Not for DAG or task er…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent timed out when airflow REST API hung on dag run status poll, poll failed - Airflow 3.3.1 marking DAG run success returns 409 Conflict even though it applied
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: airflow error: airflow db migrate failed with alembic revision conflict
Problem outcome: unknown
How to fix hasura's "cannot apply migration - inconsistent metadata" after an upgrade: reloading metadata, clearing the inconsistent objects, and re-applying migrations in the right order. Use when the metadata catalogue disagrees with the database after a hasura version upgrade. Not for migration SQL errors or permis…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - Hasura: error applying metadata "parsing the graphql query failed" code "parse-failed" on query_collections - [Hasura: metadata inconsistency 'Found conflicting definitions for GraphQL type' after up…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: hasura error: cannot apply migration - inconsistent metadata after hasu
Problem outcome: unknown
How to reconcile dbmate's "current schema is ahead of the migration files": finding which schema_migrations versions have no file, restoring them, or cleaning the rows when the deletion was deliberate. Use when dbmate status shows versions with no corresponding file on disk. Not for a database that is simply behind th…