Re: Planning to force reindex of hash indexes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Planning to force reindex of hash indexes
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Msg-id 17989.1062776400@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Planning to force reindex of hash indexes  ("Mendola Gaetano" <mendola@bigfoot.com>)
Responses Re: Planning to force reindex of hash indexes  (jearl@bullysports.com)
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"Mendola Gaetano" <mendola@bigfoot.com> writes:
> "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.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.
        regards, tom lane


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