| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: GIN improvements part 1: additional information |
| Date: | 2013-10-03 18:48:20 |
| Message-ID: | CA+Tgmoa6HEh1iXUgQS3Hph8gN4OORuzWVW=g2vVD7U4445F6Nw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> wrote:
> It seems we've all but decided that we'll require reindexing GIN indexes in
> 9.4.
I thought the consensus in Ottawa was strongly against that. I'm not
aware that anyone has subsequently changed their position on the
topic. Bruce is right to point out that we've done such things before
and can therefore do it again, but just because we have the technical
means to do it doesn't make it good policy.
That having been said, if we do decide to break it...
> Let's take the opportunity to change some other annoyances with the
> current GIN on-disk format:
...then fixing as much as possible in one go-round is clearly a good plan.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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