Re: pg_migrator and an 8.3-compatible tsvector data type - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pg_migrator and an 8.3-compatible tsvector data type
Date
Msg-id 200905310229.n4V2T7F22635@momjian.us
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In response to Re: pg_migrator and an 8.3-compatible tsvector data type  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I think this is basically a large-caliber foot gun.  You're going to
> >> pretend that invalid data is valid, until the user gets around to fixing
> >> it?
> 
> > What choice do we have?
> 
> Create a fake data type, just as you said before.

But I have to create fake index infastructure, and I have to then modify
every reference to that data time at the end, even references in rules
and expression indexes --- that seems too complex.

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