Re: [HACKERS] now 6.4 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] now 6.4
Date
Msg-id 199806101912.PAA02632@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] now 6.4  (dg@illustra.com (David Gould))
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> I have no problem with catalog changes and dumping the schema if we can
> write a script to help them do it. I would hope we can avoid having to make
> someone dump and reload their own data. I am thinking that it could be
> pretty inconvenient to dump/load and reindex something like a 50GB table with
> 6 indexes.
>
> Thanks for the clarification.

Yep, I think this is do'able, UNLESS Vadim decides he needs to change
the structure of the data/index files.  At that point, we are lost.

In the past, we have made such changes, and they were very much needed.
Not sure about the 6.4 release, but no such changes have been made yet.

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