remove_column should only be used in the up (or change) step of a migration if
it's a post-deployment migration. Otherwise there will be downtime due to the
ActiveRecord column cache, which we can avoid by using the IgnorableColumn
concern in combination with a post-deployment migration.
There are currently two cops for this:
* Migration/AddIndex: checks if indexes are added concurrently
* Migration/ColumnWithDefault: checks if columns with default values are
added in a concurrent manner
Both cops are fairly simple and make no attempt at correcting the code
as this is quite hard to do (e.g. modifications may need to be applied
in various places in the same file). They however should provide enough
to catch people ignoring the comments in generated migrations telling
them to use add_concurrent_index or add_column_with_default.
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