Re: [HACKERS] PGUpgrade WAS: Audio interview

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PGUpgrade WAS: Audio interview
Date: 2006-02-11 05:10:34
Message-ID: 43ED71CA.4090709@j-davis.com
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Hannu Krosing wrote:
>
> How hard would it be to modify postgres so that it can handle multiple
> heap page formats ?
>

If the on-disk format is changed to add a feature (rather that for some
performance reason), then that would mean that the feature would have to
be available or not per disk page. Wouldn't that cause problems?

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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