[karparov]

It takes more than a few minutes, yes. But this one-time investment will prevent the next 10 migration-related bugs that he'll otherwise blog about.

Grab some representative data from production and keep feeding that into your migration tests. Keep updating those. Worth each minute if you care about quality.

[polishdude20]

You'd also have to remember to update your PII removal code every time a new PII field is added!