gorm/doc/database/migration.md

Migration

Auto Migration

Automatically migrate your schema, to keep your schema update to date

WARNING AutoMigrate will ONLY create tables, columns and indexes if doesn't exist, WON'T change existing column's type or delete unused columns to protect your data

db.AutoMigrate(&User{})

db.AutoMigrate(&User{}, &Product{}, &Order{})

// Add table suffix when create tables
db.Set("gorm:table_options", "ENGINE=InnoDB").AutoMigrate(&User{})

Has Table

// Check if model `User`'s table has been created or not
db.HasTable(&User{})

// Check table `users` exists or not
db.HasTable("users")

Create Table

db.CreateTable(&User{})

db.Set("gorm:table_options", "ENGINE=InnoDB").CreateTable(&User{})
// will append "ENGINE=InnoDB" to the SQL statement when creating table `users`

Drop table

db.DropTable(&User{})

ModifyColumn

Change column's type

// change column description's data type to `text` for model `User`'s table
db.Model(&User{}).ModifyColumn("description", "text")

DropColumn

db.Model(&User{}).DropColumn("description")