Re: on-disk format changes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Shridhar Daithankar
Subject Re: on-disk format changes
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Msg-id 3F5CD4EB.22681.15C1BF0A@localhost
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In response to Re: on-disk format changes  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
Responses Re: on-disk format changes  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
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On 8 Sep 2003 at 8:42, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 15:25:12 +0200,
>   Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no> wrote:
> > 
> > That's what I thought. I remember from the 7.3 beta-period that it broke 
> > between beta2 and beta3 or so and am wondering if the developers are aware of 
> > any known issues which might require an initdb after 7.4beta2. Lets hope 
> > not:-)
> 
> There was some mention very recently of something that might require an
> initdb, but I don't remember what the final decision was regarding that
> issue.

If that was hash index, Tom suggested to bump version number of the indexes in 
later versions and throw an error and ask user to reindex that particular 
index. This was good enogh solution to avoid initdb IIRC.

ByeShridhar

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