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How to update your PostgreSQL database without downtime

On paper, releasing a new version of your application that requires upgrading the schema of the database is straightforward. But, changes of code and schema can not be updated in an atomic way, you only need to take care that old code is not performing a query against new schema, and reciprocally.

Last modified on June 25, 2026