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Re:We don’t use a staging environment by rtpg on Sunday April 03, 2022 @10:23PM (#30902783)
Serious question: are you going to catch "corrupt data"-style migrations in staging in general?

There are of course "locks up the DB"-style migrations where you can then go in and fix it, so staging helps with that. But "oh this data is now wrong"-style errors seem to not really bubble up when you are just working off of test data.

Not to dismiss staging testing that much, but it feels like a tricky class of error where the answer is "be careful and don't delete data if you can avoid it"...

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Re:We don’t use a staging environment by yencabulator on Monday April 04, 2022 @04:39PM (#30911689)
Even the "locks up the DB" migration behavior tends to depend on the load & size of tables, which staging might not recreate.
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