Re: pg_migrator and an 8.3-compatible tsvector data type

Because no one has responded, I am going to prevent pg_migrator from
working with a cluster that uses tsvector. I realize this limits
pg_migrator's usefulness, but I have to move on.

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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I found out at PGCon that the internal format of tsvector changed
> slightly from 8.3 to 8.4. Teodor gave me a conversion function and I
> have adjusted pg_migrator to install a v8_3_tsvector data type to be
> used during the load so the old user tables use that data type. You can
> see the code here at the bottom of this file:
>
> http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pg-migrator/pg_migrator/src/pg_migrator.c?rev=1.36&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
>
> I am not done yet because eventually v8_3_tsvector will be moved into a
> separate schema and the tsvector data type restored.
>
> The problem I have is that while I have created v8_3_tsvector (with
> casts), I have not created index routines for it, so I get this error
> when restoring a database that uses a GIN index on tsvector:
>
> Restoring database schema
> psql:/u/postgres/pg_migrator_dump_db.sql:7006: ERROR: data type
> tsvector has no default operator class for access method "gin"
> HINT: You must specify an operator class for the index or define a
> default operator class for the data type.
>
> So, how do I create a compatible set of hooks for v8_3_tsvector?
> Because tsvector is a native data type I can't figure out how to set up
> a similar type. Also, will the indexes be OK if they are created from
> types that don't have the 8.3 format? What about new indexes created
> after the migration is done?
>
> Ideally the cast would just be called during index activity and the 8.4
> tsvector index routines used. I am told by Teodor that GiST indexes
> would be fine with the 8.3 data format, and we are forcing the
> reindexing of GIN indexes anyway in 8.4.
>
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