A bad migration can fail in two modes, and one is far worse than the other. Parse-time failures (like ERROR: 42883: operator does not exist: uuid = text) roll back cleanly, surface immediately, and the user sees a clear error before any data is written. Runtime failures — where the migration applies successfully but the RLS or queries return ERROR: 42883 on every subsequent read — are silent until a query runs, and can persist undetected far longer.
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