| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: WIP: store additional info in GIN index |
| Date: | 2012-12-04 20:38:06 |
| Message-ID: | 20121204203806.GG30893@momjian.us |
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On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 05:35:24PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > This means to have two versions of code which deals with posting trees and
> > lists. For me it seems unlikely we have resources for maintenance of this.
>
> Witness how GIN has gone with unfixed bugs for months, even though
> patches to fix them have been posted. We don't have the manpower to
> maintain even *one* such implementation, let alone two.
>
> Maybe we can mark GIN indexes as invalid after pg_upgrade somehow, so
> that they require reindex in the new cluster before they can be used for
> queries or index updates.
Yes, pg_upgrade has infrastructure to do that.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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