Re:Things to know about databases
by vladsanchez on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:34PM
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Pretty open-source, until you need "premium" features like "rollback" :/ (headwall)
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At multiple companies I worked for, they concluded the backwards schema changes are not worth the risks and testing overhead. It's usually quick enough to issue a hotfix.
With rollback, you always risk losing data - remember, you're doing it when something didn't go as you expected. What are the odds, the rollback will break something further?
These were all Postgres shops, so schema changes within a transaction - that can be rolled back safely if it fails in the middle.