diff --git a/src/db/DittoTables.ts b/src/db/DittoTables.ts
index 77e0b807..42d39ea9 100644
--- a/src/db/DittoTables.ts
+++ b/src/db/DittoTables.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ interface EventRow {
   created_at: number;
   tags: string;
   sig: string;
-  deleted_at: number | null;
 }
 
 interface EventFTSRow {
diff --git a/src/db/migrations/020_drop_deleted_at.ts b/src/db/migrations/020_drop_deleted_at.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..670f94d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/db/migrations/020_drop_deleted_at.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+import { Kysely } from 'kysely';
+
+export async function up(db: Kysely<any>): Promise<void> {
+  await db.deleteFrom('nostr_events').where('deleted_at', 'is not', 'null').execute();
+  await db.schema.alterTable('nostr_events').dropColumn('deleted_at').execute();
+}
+
+export async function down(db: Kysely<any>): Promise<void> {
+  await db.schema.alterTable('nostr_events').addColumn('deleted_at', 'integer').execute();
+}