I don't see how the proposal is going to solve that type of problem, but maybe I am overlooking something?
The same way as other system tables objects, they don't dump, they don't restore. In 8.3, seems, API to index AM will be changed - will anybody except pghackers see that? New opclass layout, new opfamily table - users don't that changes at all.
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