Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> > People who want decent performance on partial match queries (or maybe
> > even *any* TS queries) are going to have to convert to the new format
> > anyway, though, so maybe this isn't something worth putting a whole lot
> > of work into.  It might be sufficient if the database conversion
> > succeeds but leaves the tsvector columns unusable until they're
> > converted.
> 
> There are so many caveats on pg_migrator (and things that need to be
> done after the migration is complete) that one starts to wonder if
> people is not better off just using parallel pg_restore.  From Stefan's
> reported timings I'm not sure that pg_migrator is that much of a benefit
> in the first place ... unless copy mode can be made much faster.  (On
> link mode it is so much faster that it's worth it, but then you don't
> have an escape hatch).

That is accurate.  I doubt copy mode speed can be improved.  I think
doing a backup, then using --link mode will be the most common usage
pattern.

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