diff --git a/contrib/backends/srndv2/src/srnd/postgres.go b/contrib/backends/srndv2/src/srnd/postgres.go
index f240c13..3d137e9 100644
--- a/contrib/backends/srndv2/src/srnd/postgres.go
+++ b/contrib/backends/srndv2/src/srnd/postgres.go
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ func (self *PostgresDatabase) upgrade7to8() {
 
 func (self *PostgresDatabase) upgrade8to9() {
 	cmds := []string {
-		"ALTER TABLE ArticlePosts ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS frontendpubkey TEXT",
+		"ALTER TABLE ArticlePosts ADD COLUMN frontendpubkey TEXT",
 		"CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS nntpchan_pubkeys(status VARCHAR(16) NOT NULL, pubkey VARCHAR(64) PRIMARY KEY)",
 	}
 	for _, cmd := range cmds {