Migrations
Overview
If your Prisma server is configured to allow database migrations, you can use SDL to define and migrate your database schema.
Prisma uses temporary directives to perform one-time migration operations. After deploying a service that contain a temporary directive, a temporary directive needs to be manually removed from the type definitions file.
Renaming
The temporary directive @rename(oldName: String!) is used to rename types and field.
If the @rename directive is not used, Prisma removes the old type and field before creating the new one, resulting in loss of data!
Renaming types
Renaming the Post type to Story
type Story @rename(oldName: "Post") {
content: String
}
The @rename(oldName: "Post") directive needs to be deleted manually after prisma deploy was executed and the renaming was performed.
Renaming fields
Renaming the text field to content
type Story {
content: String @rename(oldName: "text")
}
The @rename(oldName: "text") directive needs to be deleted manually after prisma deploy was executed and the renaming was performed.