From: | Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pgsql: Dissociate btequalimage() from interval_ops, ending its deduplic |
Date: | 2023-10-15 01:36:07 |
Message-ID: | 20231015013607.61@rfd.leadboat.com |
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On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 08:27:58PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> writes:
> > On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 07:45:21PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Hmm, I'm not sure that that last is a good idea. The upshot of this
> >> (because of the opr_sanity.out change) is that "make installcheck"
> >> will fail against existing back-branch installations. That seems
> >> more likely to cause problems/confusion than the alternative of just
> >> depending on the code change.
>
> > I'm way more worried about amcheck failing on all those indexes than I am
> > about someone who needs to tweak their installcheck rig.
>
> Well, that's indeed going to be a pain for affected people, but
> it doesn't seem like a reason to also break installcheck.
That's right. We don't have a standard that installcheck of v13.N will have
zero diffs on an initdb from v13.0. Zero diffs would be help a tiny user
population, and corrected catalog entries will help a different population. I
don't think either choice does enough harm to reopen the decision. We've got
bigger fish to fry.
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