DEV: Improve code comment about when ignored columns can be removed (#26894)

Ignored columns can only be dropped when its associated post-deploy
migration has been promoted to a regular migration. This is so because
Discourse doesn't rely on a schema file system to setup a brand new
database and thus the column information will be loaded by the
application first before the post-deploy migration runs.
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Alan Guo Xiang Tan
2024-05-07 11:06:31 +08:00
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@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ class Migration::SafeMigrate
or rename columns.
Note, to minimize disruption use self.ignored_columns = ["column name"] on your
ActiveRecord model, this can be removed 6 months or so later.
ActiveRecord model, this can be removed after the post deployment migration has been promoted to a regular migration.
This protection is in place to protect us against dropping columns that are currently
in use by live applications.