Re: GIN improvements part 1: additional information

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
To: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: GIN improvements part 1: additional information
Date: 2013-10-03 20:41:58
Message-ID: 524DD696.1060004@vmware.com
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On 03.10.2013 23:37, Alexander Korotkov wrote:
> 2) Insert kluges into GIN to support both old and new formats. So, kluges
> are kluges :) I don't see elegant way to do it for now, because formats are
> very different.

Hmm. All you need is some code to read the old format, and a function to
convert a page to new format before updating. It doesn't seem *that*
kludgey. It's a fair amount of work, for sure, but not insurmountable.

- Heikki

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