Re: pg_migrator and an 8.3-compatible tsvector data type

Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le 30 mai 09 ? 16:02, Greg Stark a ?crit :
> > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
> > wrote:
> >> I have discovered a simpler solution using ALTER TABLE and calling a
> >> conversion function:
> >>
> >> test=> CREATE TABLE tsvector_test(x tsvector);
> >> CREATE TABLE
> >> test=> ALTER TABLE tsvector_test ALTER COLUMN x TYPE tsvector
> >> test-> USING conversion_func(x);
> >> ALTER TABLE
> >>
> >> No need for a fake data type and the required index infrastructure.
> >
> > I assume you're putting this in the list of commands to run
> > post-migration along with any reindex commands etc? Because it will
> > take a while (still faster than dump/reload i think).

Yes.

> Just thinking some more about the idea to get all those post-
> processing steps running in parallel, it's occurring to me that we
> have all we need already: would it be possible for pg_migrator to
> issue a schema only script with a catalog, in the custom archive format?
> Then we could use pg_restore -j <whatever> post_migrator.script to run
> the last migration step.
>
> Of course, people will want the custom script output of pg_migrator to
> be optional, I guess.

Yes, eventually that is possible.

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