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+/**
+ * MIGRATION TO CREATE THE MESSAGES TABLES
+ *
+ * This migration creates the `messages` tables in the `community_server` database (`gradido_community`).
+ * This is done to keep all data in the same place and is to be understood in conjunction with the next migration
+ * `0046-messages_tables` which will fill the tables with the existing data
+ */
+
+export async function upgrade(queryFn: (query: string, values?: any[]) => Promise<Array<any>>) {
+  await queryFn(`
+    CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS \`messages\` (
+      \`id\` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
+      \`contribution_id\` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
+      \`user_id\` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
+      \`message\` varchar(2000) NOT NULL,
+      \`created_at\` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
+      PRIMARY KEY (\`id\`),
+    ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
+  `)
+}
+
+export async function downgrade(queryFn: (query: string, values?: any[]) => Promise<Array<any>>) {
+  await queryFn(`DROP TABLE IF EXISTS \`messages\`;`)
+}