Database Tutorial #7: PostgreSQL Migrations and Schema Design

Your schema is the foundation of everything. Bad schema decisions are expensive to fix later. Good ones make your application easier to build and scale. Why Migrations? A migration is a versioned SQL file that changes your schema. Instead of running ALTER TABLE manually in production and hoping everyone does the same, migrations track every schema change in version control. Every team member applies the same migrations in the same order. Your CI pipeline applies them automatically. Rollbacks are possible. ...

August 5, 2026 · 6 min