Andrea Maria Piana 6f088bb5c5 Fix communities migration
In some instances the communities migration would be skipped but not
marked as `dirty`.

This commit addresses the issue by:
- Making sure that if dirty is set the migration is not skipped but
replayed
- If the version is on the communities migration and dirty is false, we
check for the presence of the communities table. If not present we
replay the communities migration.
- Make community_id field in user_messages nullable

It also removes all the `down` migration, as we can't use them
effectively, as explained in the README.md added.
2021-01-08 08:43:16 +01:00

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### How to write migrations?
We only write `up` migrations, `down` migrations are not always possible in sqlite or
too complex/too expensive. For example to remove a column you would have to duplicate
the table, copy over the data, delete and recreated.
This can be very expensive for some tables (user_messages for example), so should not be attempted.
### Notes
One issue we faced multiple times is that updates to `user_messages` can be very
expensive, leading to slow upgrade times and interrupted migrations. So avoid
writes if not necessary.