From e1054b0474a158417373815eee14e91b7fbad74c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?F=C3=A9lix=20Malfait?= <felix.malfait@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:09:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix clickhouse migration (#11699)

It looks like Clickhouse Cloud uses a different config var than the docs
---
 .../clickhouse/migrations/run-migrations.ts   | 29 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/twenty-server/src/database/clickhouse/migrations/run-migrations.ts b/packages/twenty-server/src/database/clickhouse/migrations/run-migrations.ts
index f824fb4bb..4a9697fb1 100644
--- a/packages/twenty-server/src/database/clickhouse/migrations/run-migrations.ts
+++ b/packages/twenty-server/src/database/clickhouse/migrations/run-migrations.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import fs from 'fs';
 import path from 'path';
 
-import { createClient, ClickHouseClient } from '@clickhouse/client';
+import { ClickHouseClient, createClient } from '@clickhouse/client';
 import { config } from 'dotenv';
 
 config({
@@ -29,9 +29,30 @@ async function ensureDatabaseExists() {
   await client.command({
     query: `CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS "${database}"`,
   });
-  await client.command({
-    query: `SET enable_json_type = 1`,
-  });
+
+  let jsonTypeEnabled = false;
+
+  try {
+    await client.command({
+      query: `SET enable_json_type = 1`,
+    });
+    jsonTypeEnabled = true;
+  } catch (error) {
+    // Intentionally empty - will try alternative method
+  }
+
+  try {
+    await client.command({
+      query: `SET allow_experimental_json_type = 1`,
+    });
+    jsonTypeEnabled = true;
+  } catch (error) {
+    // Intentionally empty - failure handled by jsonTypeEnabled check
+  }
+
+  if (!jsonTypeEnabled) {
+    console.error('Failed to enable JSON type');
+  }
 
   await client.close();
 }