diff --git a/db/migrate/20150727230537_add_example_column_comments.rb b/db/migrate/20150727230537_add_example_column_comments.rb
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+require 'comment_migration'
+
+class AddExampleColumnComments < CommentMigration
+
+  def comments_up
+    {
+      posts: {
+        _table: 'If you want to query public posts only, use the badge_posts view.',
+        post_number: 'The position of this post in the topic. The pair (topic_id, post_number) forms a natural key on the posts table.',
+        raw: 'The raw Markdown that the user entered into the composer.',
+        cooked: 'The processed HTML that is presented in a topic.',
+        reply_to_post_number: "If this post is a reply to another, this column is the post_number of the post it's replying to. [FKEY posts.topic_id, posts.post_number]",
+        reply_quoted: 'This column is true if the post contains a quote-reply, which causes the in-reply-to indicator to be absent.',
+      },
+      topics: {
+        _table: "To query public topics only: SELECT ... FROM topics t LEFT INNER JOIN categories c ON (t.category_id = c.id AND c.read_restricted = false)"
+      },
+    }
+  end
+
+  def comments_down
+    {
+    }
+  end
+
+end
diff --git a/lib/comment_migration.rb b/lib/comment_migration.rb
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+
+
+class CommentMigration < ActiveRecord::Migration
+  def comments_up
+    raise "Not implemented"
+  end
+
+  def up
+    comments_up.each do |table|
+      table[1].each do |column|
+        table_name = table[0]
+        column_name = column[0]
+        comment = column[1]
+
+        if column_name == :_table
+          ActiveRecord::Base.exec_sql "COMMENT ON TABLE #{table_name} IS ?", comment
+          puts "  COMMENT ON TABLE #{table_name}"
+        else
+          ActiveRecord::Base.exec_sql "COMMENT ON COLUMN #{table_name}.#{column_name} IS ?", comment
+          puts "  COMMENT ON COLUMN #{table_name}.#{column_name}"
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+  def comments_down
+    {}
+  end
+
+  def down
+    replace_nils(comments_up).deep_merge(comments_down).each do |table|
+      table[1].each do |column|
+        table_name = table[0]
+        column_name = column[0]
+        comment = column[1]
+
+        if column_name == :_table
+          ActiveRecord::Base.exec_sql "COMMENT ON TABLE #{table_name} IS ?", comment
+          puts "  COMMENT ON TABLE #{table_name}"
+        else
+          ActiveRecord::Base.exec_sql "COMMENT ON COLUMN #{table_name}.#{column_name} IS ?", comment
+          puts "  COMMENT ON COLUMN #{table_name}.#{column_name}"
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+  private
+  def replace_nils(hash)
+    hash.each do |key, value|
+      if Hash === value
+        hash[key] = replace_nils value
+      else
+        hash[key] = nil
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end