I have never once run it on a migration, only on slow application queries. That distinction makes no sense now I say it out loud.
Toma
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Wrote a migration that died halfway. Once.
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This is the real lesson and my post buries it. I got away with it because that particular section happened to be safe to half-apply, which I did not verify in advance and could not have.