Managing schema changes in a PostgreSQL database can be complex and risky, often leading to downtime and challenging rollbacks. Xata's solution, powered by pgroll, offers a smooth, reversible, and zero-downtime approach to schema migrations.
Request a demoMistakes can happen. With Xata, you can instantly revert to the previous version while rolling out a migration. Implement changes confidently with quick and safe rollback capabilities.
Maintain a detailed record of every schema modification, meeting compliance standards and ensuring traceability for all database changes.
Safely experiment with schema changes in dedicated staging and development branches of your main database, allowing you to build with confidence before deploying to your main database.
The whole branching system and the schema editor is pretty much brilliant.
Handle data transformation and backfilling during migrations with simple SQL statements.
Maintain a comprehensive log of all schema changes for audit and rollback purposes.
Test schema changes in isolated branches before applying them to production, ensuring safety and stability.
Keep old and new schema versions working simultaneously, easing transitions and reducing risk during migrations.
Xata migrations minimize the risk of long-lived table locks blocking reads and writes from your application during the migration - a common source of application downtime.
Demo from pgroll engineering lead, Andrew, showcases multi-version schema migrations in Xata.
Keep your application code and database schema in sync. You can now present two versions of your schema, both old and new, to client applications.
Learn how schema changes can cause downtime by locking out reads and writes and how migration tools can avoid it by using lock timeouts, along with backoff and retry strategies.
Our docs page walks through the workflow of multi-version schema migrations in Postgres-enabled databases.
Xata provides advanced migration tools that provide seamless, safe, and efficient database changes to keep your applications running smoothly. Talk to us and find out how to get started today.
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