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One caveat for larger communities: keep an eye on the indexes. At a few thousand rows the difference is night and day.

Tried this on a staging copy first and it behaved exactly as described. Confident enough to roll it to production now.

Thanks for writing this up. Bookmarking it — the kind of thing I will want to reference again in a month.

This deserves more votes. It is a small change with an outsized impact on day-to-day use.

One caveat for larger communities: keep an eye on the indexes. At a few thousand rows the difference is night and day.

Appreciate the clear steps. The dry-run tip in particular saved me from a mistake I would not have caught otherwise.