[aerogear-dev] AGPUSH-1075 / Automatic DB Migrations

[Douglas Campos]

Howdy!

I was looking at Erik's PR[1] and was wondering about the implications
of automatic DB migrations during app startup. I've got a lot of burns
from this in the past, including:

- DDL statements being disabled in production
- Massive lock on a DB during an accidental restart which triggered the
	changes to happen
- failed migration which ended up with the app having a model mismatch.

I love migrations, I'm just throwing this here to make sure we're aware
of the potential problems that incur with us running them automagically
during app startup.

Erik pointed out this shouldn't be a problem for openshift-like
deployments, but what about the "enterprise" side of the house?

Thoughts?

[1]:https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-unifiedpush-server/pull/448

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qmx