Re: reducing NUMERIC size for 9.1 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: reducing NUMERIC size for 9.1
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Msg-id 201007161604.o6GG4lM11754@momjian.us
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In response to Re: reducing NUMERIC size for 9.1  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
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David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jul 16, 2010, at 6:17 AM, Thom Brown wrote:
> 
> > Joy! :)  Nice patch Robert.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> What are the implications for pg_upgrade? Will a database with values
> created before the patch continue to work after the patch has been
> applied (as happened with the new hstore in 9.0), or will pg_upgrade
> need to be taught how to upgrade the old storage format?

Robert told me the old format continues to work in the upgraded
databases.

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