On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> Since we haven't actually released spgist yet, I'm wondering if it >> should be revised to look more like btree and hash - that is, add a >> 32-bit version number immediately following the magic number. All >> experience hath shown that it is often much more work to add such >> things later. > > With the beta already out, I think we have released it, for some > admittedly-small value of "released". I think it's too late to make > non-pg_upgrade-able changes on mere speculation that they might be a > good idea. > > In any case, I would've expected we'd end up changing all these page > formats if we go over to your concept of a metapage for everything. > Fixing indexes that already have some kind of metapage will surely be > trivial compared to fixing heaps.
I thought you might say that, but I thought I'd ask just in case. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers