# How To Maintain Seed Files (And Why You May Not Want To Do It)

DevFeed: [How To Maintain Seed Files (And Why You May Not Want To Do It)](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-maintain-seed-files-and-why-you-may-not-want-to-do-it-5392.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/how-to-maintain-seed-data>)

Author: Paul Scanlon

Published: 2025-02-05T15:17:47Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Script](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/script.md>), [YAML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/yaml.md>), [Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/automation.md>), [Code review](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code-review.md>), [Pull Request](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-request.md>), [Docker Compose](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker-compose.md>)

Tags: [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [build](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [docker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/docker.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [pull-request](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-request.md>), [yaml](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/yaml.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how to maintain database seed files as applications grow. It recommends separating seed data by environment, storing it in version control, reviewing seed changes alongside schema changes, and automating seeding through deployment or development tooling such as Docker Compose.

## Source excerpt

As beautiful as a greenfield database is, it's useless without data. This is not just for production-tests, development, staging, and demos-all need data for proper functionality. This is where seed files come in. Seed files are scripts that populate your database with initial da...