Local database schema changes (migrations) after release

[nicanorgarcia]

We recently found that if a previous version of the database was installed and the application was updated (new build), the app would crash (in this case, new tables were not found).

We need to implement a way to update the database if the schema is changed once the app is released.

[AKuederle]

Shouldn't this be a well supported scenario? We aren't the only people that need database migrations

[PKlumpp]

This is pretty straightforward to solve. Every Database has a unique version ID. If this ID does not match the most recent one, the database should provide (implement) the migration to transfer content from the old version to the most recent one. So I would not consider this a bug. It sounds more like missing code.