Re: reducing NUMERIC size for 9.1

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: reducing NUMERIC size for 9.1
Date: 2010-07-16 16:04:47
Message-ID: 201007161604.o6GG4lM11754@momjian.us
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David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jul 16, 2010, at 6:17 AM, Thom Brown wrote:
>
> > Joy! :) Nice patch Robert.
>
> Indeed.
>
> What are the implications for pg_upgrade? Will a database with values
> created before the patch continue to work after the patch has been
> applied (as happened with the new hstore in 9.0), or will pg_upgrade
> need to be taught how to upgrade the old storage format?

Robert told me the old format continues to work in the upgraded
databases.

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