Re: pg_migrator and an 8.3-compatible tsvector data type

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>
To: Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: pg_migrator and an 8.3-compatible tsvector data type
Date: 2009-05-30 14:12:48
Message-ID: 26E00E21-3145-41C8-B8B1-CD193627FB9F@hi-media.com
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Hi,

Le 30 mai 09 à 16:02, Greg Stark a écrit :
> 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).

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.

Regards,
--
dim

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