Re: Planning to force reindex of hash indexes

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Mendola Gaetano" <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Planning to force reindex of hash indexes
Date: 2003-09-05 15:40:00
Message-ID: 17989.1062776400@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Mendola Gaetano" <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com> writes:
> "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I've found a number of infelicities in the hash index code that can't be
>> fixed without an on-disk format change.

> How can we avoid this kind of mess for the future ?

Build a time machine, go back fifteen years, wave a magic wand to
increase the IQ levels of the Berkeley grad students? Sometimes
we just have to change bad decisions, that's all.

regards, tom lane

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