This is probably easy, but I see conflicting information in various topics, so I’ll ask: If I wanted to add a field to a database table for a new Discourse feature, where is the schema defined? And how does one tell existing instances to alter their existing tables when upgrading if something is ad…

How to properly alter the database?

mpalmer (Matt Palmer) April 9, 2017, 10:56pm 7

Aaaaaaaaah, in that case, yeah, a new migration in db/migrate is the correct course of action.

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