Database Migration Index Locks Cause Production Outages Without CI Safeguards
Adding an index to a large production table without CONCURRENTLY locks the table and can take down an entire application for 20+ minutes. Neither code review nor CI pipelines reliably catch dangerous migration patterns before they ship. Teams lack automated tooling to flag unsafe SQL migration operations in their deployment pipeline.
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