On Feb 22, 2008, at 10:18 PM, Craig James wrote:

> This time I watched -- it got stuck again, doing some sort of huge  
> SELECT statement.  I was under the impression that migrating a node  
> was a fairly simple operation that should happen in a short time  
> (less than a minute?) even for large databases.

Pre-conditions: no active transactions and replication is "caught up"  
-- ie you're not tens or hundreds of events behind on any node.

The move origin takes time approaching zero for me.