Re: [PATCH] cleanup hashindex for pg_migrator hashindex compat mode (for 8.4) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: [PATCH] cleanup hashindex for pg_migrator hashindex compat mode (for 8.4)
Date
Msg-id 20090526182715.GH32650@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: [PATCH] cleanup hashindex for pg_migrator hashindex compat mode (for 8.4)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [PATCH] cleanup hashindex for pg_migrator hashindex compat mode (for 8.4)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane escribió:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> I don't trust filterdiff one bit :-(
> 
> > For any particular reason, or just natural skepticism?
> 
> IIRC it was demonstrated to be broken the last time it was proposed
> as a solution to our problems.  Maybe it's been fixed since then, but
> I don't have any confidence in it, since evidently it's not been stress
> tested very hard.

I think you're probably confusing it with interdiff.  I've had the
latter fail several times (and I haven't really used it all that much),
but I've never seem filterdiff make a mistake even though I use it
frequently.

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