Nikolay and Michael discuss zero-downtime schema migrations — why they're a challenge, a variety of different cases, and some things you can do to achieve them.

Here are links to a few things we mentioned: 

• Comparison of JOINS: MongoDB vs. PostgreSQL (blog post by Michael Stonebraker and Álvaro Hernández)
• Common DB schema change mistakes (blog post by Nikolay)
• lock_timeout
• Fast Column Creation with Defaults (blog post by Brandur)
• Database Schema Changes Without Downtime (new version of blog post by Braintree)
• Zero-downtime Postgres migrations - the hard parts (blog post from GoCardless)
• GitLab migration_helpers.rb
• GitLab migration style guide
• dblab

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• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard

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