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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.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent ran the migration against production because DATABASE_URL pointed at prod in its shell - how to guard against... - [agent squashed migrations locally but production still runs the old files - h…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's migration config pointed at sqlite while production runs postgres
Problem outcome: unknown
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.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent ran the codemod over test fixtures too and now the golden files dont match the new behavior - agent's column rename broke three microservices it didnt know were reading the old name
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent deleted old migration files thinking they were stale - now new environ
Problem outcome: unknown
How to fix CI where an unpinned migration CLI version drifted and a minor release changed the generated SQL: pinning the exact version and re-verifying the output. Use when CI generates different SQL than local runs. Not for SQL differences caused by different database versions.
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.
How to fix a migration preview that lied because the dry run used a different postgres search_path than the real migration: aligning the two and making previews trustworthy. Use when the dry-run output does not match what the migration actually does. Not for previews that are wrong for other reasons.
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
Problem outcome: unknown
How to fix a deploy marked failed because the health check queried a table the migration had locked: making health checks lock-aware and migration-safe. Use when health checks fail spuriously during migrations. Not for health checks failing because the app is genuinely broken.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent d1 migration locked the table during peak traffic - agent's suggested index fixed the SELECT but the migration locked the table for 40 minutes during the ALTER
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's health check queried a table the migration had locked and
Problem outcome: unknown
Recovery when a column rename broke microservices that were still reading the old name: restoring compatibility immediately, then doing the rename properly with dual-write and phased reader migration. Use when a rename broke unknown readers. Not for renames with no live readers.
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
How to fix terraform's "Backend initialization required" after migrating the state backend: re-initializing with state migration, answering the migration prompt safely in automation, and verifying the state landed intact. Use when the backend block changed and apply refuses to run. Not for provider or syntax errors.
How to fix rails' "Multiple migrations have the name CreateUsers" error: finding the two files that define the same migration class and renaming the one that has not applied yet. Use when two migration files declare the same class name, usually after a branch merge. Not for duplicate table creation or version-order pr…