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AI-generatedPartial migration causing django_migrations table out of sync during zero-downtime deploy
When a Django application is upgraded, the migrate command applies each migration sequentially and records the migration name in the django_migrations table. The goal is to keep the application online while the schema evolves, which requires that the table entry and the actual database schema remain aligned after each step. The uncertainty lies in how to han