Re: full text search in 8.3

andy <andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Did the data transfer over? The declarations of the former contrib
>> functions would of course fail, but type tsvector is still there.
>> I would like to think that ignoring pg_restore's whining would get
>> you most of the way there.

> So I tried again: The long answer is no, the table with the tsvector
> did not get created, and thus, not copied:

> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: type
> "tsvector" is only a shell
> LINE 11: vectors tsvector
> ^
> Command was: CREATE TABLE times (

Hmph, that's annoying. I suppose the problem is that the script has
just set the search path to "public, pg_catalog", and so the failed
shell tsvector type in public is found in preference to the one in
pg_catalog.

What you could probably do as a workaround for testing is to create a
dummy type entry to block the creation of the shell type, say

create domain public.tsvector as pg_catalog.tsvector;

and then run pg_restore. This seems pretty ugly though ... anyone
have a better idea?

(Knew we should have insisted on seeing a migration plan sooner.
Oh well.)

regards, tom lane