diff --git a/app/models/deployment.rb b/app/models/deployment.rb
index 18d9e96301c8cc209e1404116b8ba2c070779861..f6cccae433434308ed10db11e0d209942fcf5ec2 100644
--- a/app/models/deployment.rb
+++ b/app/models/deployment.rb
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ class Deployment < ActiveRecord::Base
 
   delegate :name, to: :environment, prefix: true
 
-  store :properties, accessors: [:on_stop]
-
   after_save :create_ref
 
   def commit
diff --git a/db/migrate/20161017095000_add_properties_to_deployment.rb b/db/migrate/20161017095000_add_properties_to_deployment.rb
index 6371166a4d259b82cae9cafca4ded072901394fb..f620ee0de1cd76c639d6289605b70c33772988ae 100644
--- a/db/migrate/20161017095000_add_properties_to_deployment.rb
+++ b/db/migrate/20161017095000_add_properties_to_deployment.rb
@@ -1,29 +1,9 @@
-# See http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/development/migration_style_guide.html
-# for more information on how to write migrations for GitLab.
-
 class AddPropertiesToDeployment < ActiveRecord::Migration
   include Gitlab::Database::MigrationHelpers
 
-  # Set this constant to true if this migration requires downtime.
   DOWNTIME = false
 
-  # When a migration requires downtime you **must** uncomment the following
-  # constant and define a short and easy to understand explanation as to why the
-  # migration requires downtime.
-  # DOWNTIME_REASON = ''
-
-  # When using the methods "add_concurrent_index" or "add_column_with_default"
-  # you must disable the use of transactions as these methods can not run in an
-  # existing transaction. When using "add_concurrent_index" make sure that this
-  # method is the _only_ method called in the migration, any other changes
-  # should go in a separate migration. This ensures that upon failure _only_ the
-  # index creation fails and can be retried or reverted easily.
-  #
-  # To disable transactions uncomment the following line and remove these
-  # comments:
-  # disable_ddl_transaction!
-
   def change
-    add_column :deployments, :properties, :text
+    add_column :deployments, :on_stop, :string
   end
 end
diff --git a/db/schema.rb b/db/schema.rb
index f568a5ec6991c73c6a6c703b3865bc7df0d051ad..d4e35626e9bcef198aa3055b0c3f7eaba0c45475 100644
--- a/db/schema.rb
+++ b/db/schema.rb
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20161017095000) do
     t.string "deployable_type"
     t.datetime "created_at"
     t.datetime "updated_at"
-    t.text "properties"
+    t.string "on_stop"
   end
 
   add_index "deployments", ["project_id", "environment_id", "iid"], name: "index_deployments_on_project_id_and_environment_id_and_iid", using: :btree