diff --git a/packages/admin/src/server/migrations.ts b/packages/admin/src/server/migrations.ts
index 937be38b..2b497b56 100644
--- a/packages/admin/src/server/migrations.ts
+++ b/packages/admin/src/server/migrations.ts
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ export const migrationsRotuer = trpc.router({
       const {content, info} = await migrator.generateDownMigration({name: input.name})
 
       const downPath = migrator.downPath(info.migration.path as string)
+      await fs.promises.mkdir(path.dirname(downPath), {recursive: true})
       await fs.promises.writeFile(downPath, content)
       return {downPath, content}
     }),
diff --git a/packages/migrator/src/migrator.ts b/packages/migrator/src/migrator.ts
index c0b40639..24632301 100644
--- a/packages/migrator/src/migrator.ts
+++ b/packages/migrator/src/migrator.ts
@@ -384,7 +384,8 @@ export class Migrator extends umzug.Umzug<MigratorContext> {
         pgpOptions: this.client.pgpOptions,
       })
 
-      const migrator = new Migrator({...this.migratorOptions, client})
+      const MigratorClass = this.constructor as typeof Migrator // todo: how do we know we can pass the same kind of constructor parameters to this
+      const migrator = new MigratorClass({...this.migratorOptions, client})
 
       const create = () => this.client.query(sql`create database ${sql.identifier([dbName])}`)
 
diff --git a/packages/schemainspect/src/misc.ts b/packages/schemainspect/src/misc.ts
index 7f1b505e..7a84bd67 100644
--- a/packages/schemainspect/src/misc.ts
+++ b/packages/schemainspect/src/misc.ts
@@ -51,17 +51,17 @@ export const unquoted_identifier = (identifier: string, schema?: string, identit
   return s
 }
 
+export const canSkipQuotes = (identifier: string) => /^[_a-z]+$/.test(identifier)
+
 export const quoted_identifier = (identifier: string, schema?: string, identity_arguments?: string) => {
-  // let s = [identifier, schema]
-  //   .filter(Boolean)
-  //   .map(s => (/^[\d_a-z]+$/.test(s) ? s : `"${s.replaceAll(`"`, `""`)}"`))
-  //   .join('.')
+  // if (canSkipQuotes(identifier) && !schema && !identity_arguments) {
+  //   return identifier // no need for quotes
+  // }
 
-  // if (identity_arguments) {
-  //   s += `(${identity_arguments})`
+  // if (canSkipQuotes(identifier) && canSkipQuotes(schema) && !identity_arguments) {
+  //   return `${schema}.${identifier}` // no need for quotes
   // }
 
-  // return s
   if (!identifier && schema) {
     return `"${schema.replaceAll(`"`, '""')}"`
   }