diff --git a/migrations/2021-10-07-220812_add_version_no_prerelease/down.sql b/migrations/2021-10-07-220812_add_version_no_prerelease/down.sql
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..040664f5867
--- /dev/null
+++ b/migrations/2021-10-07-220812_add_version_no_prerelease/down.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+ALTER TABLE versions
+    DROP COLUMN version_no_prerelease;
diff --git a/migrations/2021-10-07-220812_add_version_no_prerelease/up.sql b/migrations/2021-10-07-220812_add_version_no_prerelease/up.sql
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e01bf9cc7a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/migrations/2021-10-07-220812_add_version_no_prerelease/up.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+ALTER TABLE versions
+    ADD COLUMN version_no_prerelease semver_triple
+        GENERATED ALWAYS AS ( to_semver_no_prerelease(num) ) STORED;
diff --git a/src/models/krate_reverse_dependencies.sql b/src/models/krate_reverse_dependencies.sql
index 787623ed500..1482f2299ac 100644
--- a/src/models/krate_reverse_dependencies.sql
+++ b/src/models/krate_reverse_dependencies.sql
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SELECT *, COUNT(*) OVER () as total FROM (
         SELECT versions.*,
         row_number() OVER (
             PARTITION BY crate_id
-            ORDER BY to_semver_no_prerelease(num) DESC NULLS LAST
+            ORDER BY version_no_prerelease DESC NULLS LAST
         ) rn
         FROM versions
         WHERE NOT yanked
diff --git a/src/tasks/dump_db/dump-db.toml b/src/tasks/dump_db/dump-db.toml
index 8d8b2dd9c23..2f74f9fbae7 100644
--- a/src/tasks/dump_db/dump-db.toml
+++ b/src/tasks/dump_db/dump-db.toml
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ yanked = "public"
 license = "public"
 crate_size = "public"
 published_by = "public"
+version_no_prerelease = "private"
 
 [versions_published_by.columns]
 version_id = "private"