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Zero-downtime table migrations in MySQL
3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2009-07-18 · latest 2012-09-03
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…they studied Facebook's approach[1], and Twitter's[2], and explain why it didn't work for them. [1] https://github.com/freels/table_migrator [2] http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=430801045932
comment by DanielRibeiro · 2012-09-03 · in Reddit's database has only two tables -
This is old news, but we successfully use https://github.com/freels/table_migrator in production not on heroku. It creates a copy of the table, performs the schema changes, copies the data over, then renames the tables for almost (i.e. 1-2…
comment by c3 · 2012-02-13 · in Rails migrations with no downtime