Re: pg_migrator and making columns invisible

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > pg_migrator requies tables using tsvector data types to be rebuilt, and
> > there has been discussion of how to prevent people from accessing those
> > columns before they are rebuilt.  We discussed renaming the tables
> > (affects all columns) or columns, using rules (not fine-grained enough),
> > or using column permissions (doesn't affect super-users).
> 
> > My new idea is to mark the column as "dropped" and unmark them before
> > rebuilding the table.  That might be the best I can do.  Comments?
> 
> You're expending a lot of work on solving the wrong problem.  The right
> solution is a temporary data type.

How do cleanup all references to the tsvector data type?  I am afraid
there will be tons of tsvector references outside tables that I can't
clean up.

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