Re: Dept of ugly hacks: eliminating padding space in system indexes

Tom Lane napsal(a):
> Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM> writes:
>> Tom Lane napsal(a):
>>> Cutting a third off the size of a system index has got to be worth
>>> something, but is it worth a hack as ugly as this one?
>
>> The problem what I see there is how to fit with in-place-upgrade. Catalog should
>> be generate from scratch, but if somebody uses name in regular table it invokes
>> request for reindex.
>
> Actually, an existing index stored as "name" would continue to work
> fine, so I think this could be worked around. But in any case name is
> deprecated for user use, so anyone who suffers a reindex has only
> themselves to blame.

Yes, it is deprecated by you know a user. Give him a loaded shot-gun and he
start play a golf :-).

However, reindex is acceptable penalty for user who uses deprecated things.

Zdenek