-- Devotee's sampradāya (spiritual lineage). Every account defaults to the -- Gaudiya sampradāya; the column is NOT NULL so the value is always -- present. Stored as a lowercase code; the frontend maps it to a display -- label. Existing rows are backfilled to 'gaudiya' by the DEFAULT. ALTER TABLE users ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS sampradaya VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'gaudiya';