Leaving Airtable without losing the business logic inside it.
Ten migration patterns covering inventory through cutover and rollback. These are sanitized reference patterns drawn from migration work, not client case studies: no client names, data, or outcomes appear here.
Patterns
Dependency inventory before an Airtable exit →
Find everything pointed at the base first.
Enumerating every automation, integration, view, form, and human process that depends on an Airtable base before planning a migration.
Preserving linked records →
Relations survive the move or the move failed.
Mapping Airtable linked records, lookups, and rollups onto real foreign keys and views without losing cardinality.
Automation and script mapping →
Every automation gets a named destination.
Translating Airtable automations and script actions into database triggers, scheduled jobs, and application code.
Permission parity →
Nobody gains access during a migration.
Reproducing Airtable's collaborator, base, table, and field-level access in Postgres row-level security without widening anyone's reach.
Reconciliation before cutover →
Prove the copy matches before you trust it.
Row counts, checksums, relation integrity, and value-level sampling that must pass before an Airtable base is retired.
Cutover →
A short freeze, a scripted sequence, a named decision-maker.
Sequencing the switch from Airtable to the new system with a freeze window, a scripted runbook, and a defined abort point.
Airtable rollback plan →
The base stays authoritative until you say otherwise.
Keeping a reversible position throughout an Airtable migration, and knowing exactly when reversal stops being possible.
Airtable to PostgreSQL field mapping →
Every Airtable field type has one right destination.
A field-type mapping table from Airtable to PostgreSQL, including the types that need a lookup table rather than a column.
Airtable to Supabase →
Postgres plus auth, storage, and policies in one move.
Landing an Airtable base on Supabase: schema, grants, row-level security, storage for attachments, and the API surface that replaces the Airtable REST API.
Hybrid architectures →
Keep Airtable where it is genuinely good.
Leaving Airtable in place as an editing surface for a subset of data while the system of record moves to Postgres.
Related project pages
Every pattern in this track
- Airtable dependency inventory before a migration
- Preserving Airtable linked records in a migration
- Mapping Airtable automations and scripts to a new stack
- Permission parity when migrating off Airtable
- Reconciling Airtable data before cutover
- Airtable cutover plan: freeze, sequence, decide
- Airtable migration rollback plan
- Airtable to PostgreSQL: field type mapping
- Airtable to Supabase migration
- Hybrid Airtable architectures: keep what works
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