> So don't give it up for cargo cult reasons. You're not Google Search until proven otherwise. Agreed, and in a lot of cases the planned downtime is a matter o

> So don't give it up for cargo cult reasons. You're not Google Search until proven otherwise. Agreed, and in a lot of cases the planned downtime is a matter of seconds which will only be noticeable if someone happens to be loading your page at the exact point in time where your web server is offline. In most cases it doesn't really take that long to change a column in a table with 15,000 rows on it. For most apps I'd much rather go the route of making this a dead simple operation with 5 seconds of downtime vs a multi-migration 8 step approach.