diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index f1f9e4b0..10638ab2 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ require (
 	buf.build/gen/go/bufbuild/protovalidate/protocolbuffers/go v1.36.11-20260415201107-50325440f8f2.1
 	buf.build/go/protovalidate v1.2.0
 	github.com/Oudwins/zog v0.22.2
-	github.com/amacneil/dbmate/v2 v2.33.0
+	github.com/amacneil/dbmate/v2 v2.34.1
 	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2 v1.42.1
 	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config v1.32.29
 	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials v1.19.28
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 0a78d6ff..2d98b1aa 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ github.com/Oudwins/zog v0.22.2 h1:neSFVFsn7cd4azB9+2hK1sn1By5UZGc8o28vNWJhUIE=
 github.com/Oudwins/zog v0.22.2/go.mod h1:c4ADJ2zNkJp37ZViNy1o3ZZoeMvO7UQVO7BaPtRoocg=
 github.com/amacneil/dbmate/v2 v2.33.0 h1:b+NMcbdEIXfUAVaJA9oghc5oy3cjD0jGEIHGk6gZYgE=
 github.com/amacneil/dbmate/v2 v2.33.0/go.mod h1:N+r8NZLDhoRs4Qh801y8rvb6eeRxwYojYYUa8wwNQq8=
+github.com/amacneil/dbmate/v2 v2.34.1 h1:wfJA2sMBvqZKW1Mw4Mn/Pkv6dwlUcyagxct9QwdyE1c=
+github.com/amacneil/dbmate/v2 v2.34.1/go.mod h1:e0C7z9CM/sheKGTR8wT4sKj/K8pUKl607LyYJhqYzjU=
 github.com/antlr4-go/antlr/v4 v4.13.1 h1:SqQKkuVZ+zWkMMNkjy5FZe5mr5WURWnlpmOuzYWrPrQ=
 github.com/antlr4-go/antlr/v4 v4.13.1/go.mod h1:GKmUxMtwp6ZgGwZSva4eWPC5mS6vUAmOABFgjdkM7Nw=
 github.com/armon/go-socks5 v0.0.0-20160902184237-e75332964ef5 h1:0CwZNZbxp69SHPdPJAN/hZIm0C4OItdklCFmMRWYpio=
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/amacneil/dbmate/v2/pkg/dbmate/migration.go b/vendor/github.com/amacneil/dbmate/v2/pkg/dbmate/migration.go
index 478b560c..50486d05 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/amacneil/dbmate/v2/pkg/dbmate/migration.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/amacneil/dbmate/v2/pkg/dbmate/migration.go
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ var (
 	ErrParseMissingDown    = errors.New("dbmate requires each migration to define a down block with '-- migrate:down'")
 	ErrParseWrongOrder     = errors.New("dbmate requires '-- migrate:up' to appear before '-- migrate:down'")
 	ErrParseUnexpectedStmt = errors.New("dbmate does not support statements preceding the '-- migrate:up' block")
+	ErrParseMultipleDown   = errors.New("dbmate requires every '-- migrate:down' to be preceded by a '-- migrate:up'")
 )
 
 func parseMigrationContents(contents string) ([]*ParsedMigration, error) {
@@ -244,7 +245,7 @@ func getMigrationSectionSubstrings(contents string) ([]string, error) {
 		begin, end := sectionBeginEnd[0], sectionBeginEnd[1]
 		contentsSubstring := substring(contents, begin, end)
 		if len(downRegExp.FindAllStringIndex(contentsSubstring, -1)) > 1 {
-			return nil, ErrParseMissingUp
+			return nil, ErrParseMultipleDown
 		}
 		sectionSubstrings = append(sectionSubstrings, contentsSubstring)
 	}
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/amacneil/dbmate/v2/pkg/dbmate/version.go b/vendor/github.com/amacneil/dbmate/v2/pkg/dbmate/version.go
index f36adeb3..45225b5d 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/amacneil/dbmate/v2/pkg/dbmate/version.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/amacneil/dbmate/v2/pkg/dbmate/version.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 package dbmate
 
 // Version of dbmate
-const Version = "2.33.0"
+const Version = "2.34.1"
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index c01fceb2..ec4c2940 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ github.com/Oudwins/zog/pkgs/internals
 github.com/Oudwins/zog/pkgs/internals/is
 github.com/Oudwins/zog/pkgs/zss/core
 github.com/Oudwins/zog/zconst
-# github.com/amacneil/dbmate/v2 v2.33.0
+# github.com/amacneil/dbmate/v2 v2.34.1
 ## explicit; go 1.25.0
 github.com/amacneil/dbmate/v2/pkg/dbmate
 github.com/amacneil/dbmate/v2/pkg/dbutil