> Having Rails/Django/(Framework of your choice) automatically notice the need for a column to exist and make appropriate modifications you could work with it t

> Having Rails/Django/(Framework of your choice) automatically notice the need for a column to exist and make appropriate modifications you could work with it the same way you would managing a document relation in your code. Hibernate can do this (IIRC, it's been awhile), which is great for development mode, but I would never trust a framework/ORM to "auto-migrate" my production database.