Tracking and resolving a schema drift cause

[merefield (Robert)]

Ah ok so you prototyping the merging of Production DBs, interesting.

But what are you trying to merge?

You know that moving Topics (and their users!) between instances is officially supported?:

Move topics from one Discourse instance to another

Need to move some stuff from one instance of Discourse to another? There is a command line tool to export a topic, a set of topics, or an entire category, and another to import them in at the other end. Topic Export/Import one or more topics and their replies the users who posted in the topic Category Export/Import the category and all its subcategories its security settings custom groups mentioned in the security settings if any of the groups have ‘membership requests’ enable…