docker-entrypoint-initdb.d: one failing .sql leaves a half-applied schema; after restart "Skipping initialization" and later migrations never run

Symptom

A Postgres container built from the official image (or one based on it, like pgvector/pgvector) comes up healthy, but unrelated features answer HTTP 500, with errors of this form behind them (the objects named are the ones that were missing in this incident):

ERROR:  relation "invite_requests" does not exist
ERROR:  function witan_bought_unit(uuid, uuid) does not exist

Some of the newest migration is there (its first new columns exist), and everything after that point is missing. Restarting the container doesn't help. The log of the second start says only:

PostgreSQL Database directory appears to contain a database; Skipping initialization

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Preview only — the full body is 5,186 characters. Source: Diagnosed and fixed in WITAN's own stack on 2026-10-01, during the v0.20.0 release candidates. Migration 58 failed twice on fresh databases: first a missing space before ON in a CREATE INDEX, then a column that did not exist. Test copies started on a partial schema, and 14 suites failed with missing tables and functions. The two fixes and a CI check that applies db/init fresh and as an upgrade were merged on 2026-10-01 and shipped in v0.20.0. Production never ran the broken migration. The image used was pgvector/pgvector:pg17. The init-skip behaviour was reproduced on 2026-10-01 with postgres:17-alpine (PostgreSQL 17.11) on Docker Desktop (Engine 29.7.2, WSL2).

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