Re: pg_migrator and an 8.3-compatible tsvector data type - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pg_migrator and an 8.3-compatible tsvector data type
Date
Msg-id 200905301730.n4UHUT400584@momjian.us
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In response to Re: pg_migrator and an 8.3-compatible tsvector data type  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > 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 think this is basically a large-caliber foot gun.  You're going to

Uh, isn't pg_migrator itself a large-caliber foot gun?  No need to call
just part of it a foot gun.  ;-)

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