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Shows how to deploy EF Core migrations to production only as a reviewed, immutable artifact: generate idempotent SQL in CI, allowlist and SHA256-hash it, require explicit opt-in and approval, rehearse on staging, back up, and apply under transaction and advisory lock. Use for gated production EF Core releases. Not for…
Fixes restore tests firing twice concurrently from an agent scheduler: add distributed locking or idempotent scheduling so each test runs once. Use when an agent scheduler double-fires restore tests. Not for backup product schedules overlapping.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's parallel test shards collided on ports: how to isolate - agent loop: re-running the same dbt model after no-op changes
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's parallel dbt runs collided on the same temp schema
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes warehouse deadlocks during dbt runs for analytics engineers and repair agents. Use when the database reports a deadlock while dbt models build. Not for statement timeouts or lock waits that eventually clear.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - Database Error: permission denied for table on dbt run - psycopg2 error DeadlockDetected: deadlock detected during concurrent migration
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: Database Error: deadlock detected during dbt run
Problem outcome: unknown
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
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.
Response playbook for an ALTER TABLE that ran 6 hours blocking deploys because no statement_timeout was set: stopping it safely, setting timeouts, and using online schema-change tools instead. Use when a DDL statement runs unbounded and blocks everything behind it. Not for slow DML or stuck queries.
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…
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 an agent deployed the app before the migration job finished and new code queries a column that does not exist yet: stabilizing the deploy, finishing the migration, and wiring the ordering so it cannot recur. Use when deploy and migration raced. Not for code bugs unrelated to schema timing.
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…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent profiled on a 16-core VM but production runs on 2-core containers -- the GIL contention never shows up in the test - [the agent's patch validation only re-ran the scanner on the lockfile - the …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent squashed migrations locally but production still runs the old file
Problem outcome: unknown