Re: Planning to force reindex of hash indexes

From: "Mendola Gaetano" <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Planning to force reindex of hash indexes
Date: 2003-09-05 16:29:12
Message-ID: 00bd01c373cb$07c25f00$be700b3e@mm.eutelsat.org
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"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "Mendola Gaetano" <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com> writes:
> > "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> I've found a number of infelicities in the hash index code that can't
be
> >> fixed without an on-disk format change.
>
> > How can we avoid this kind of mess for the future ?
>
> Build a time machine, go back fifteen years, wave a magic wand to
> increase the IQ levels of the Berkeley grad students?

:-)

> Sometimes we just have to change bad decisions, that's all.

I don't know how much old is the code incriminated but I mean
there is no way to improve the code approved ?

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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