Tom Lane wrote:
> Kaare Rasmussen <kar@kakidata.dk> writes:
>
>>Not sure about your position here. You claimed that it would be a good idea to
>>freeze the on disk format for at least a couple of versions.
>
>
> I said it would be a good idea to freeze the format of user tables (and
> indexes) across multiple releases.
Indexes aren't as big a deal. Reindexing is less painful than dump/restore. It could
still lead to significant downtime for very large databases (at least the for the tables
that are being reindexed), but not nearly as much.
