[wp-hackers] Handling upgrades to a plugin's database scheme

[James Davis]

Travis Snoozy wrote:

> I use a progressive upgrade scheme - there's a chunk of code that
> converts v1 data to v2 data, and another for v2 -> v3, and so on.
> Doing a (conditional) creation followed by insertion means that if I
> somehow get v2, v4, and v5 data in the same database, the conversion
> will still work:

Thanks. That's the way I've decided to go with this now. It appears to
work well.

James

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