This is the answer that I would give. Over time, my development has shifted to modeling the domain first, including simple APIs that use those domain models wel

This is the answer that I would give. Over time, my development has shifted to modeling the domain first, including simple APIs that use those domain models well before I intend to write a table. To answer the question as asked, I use pgadmin or the corresponding database management tool to update the database. My first actual migration is a stable version of the database.