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Re: reducing NUMERIC size for 9.1

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
Cc: Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com>, Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>, Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-16T16:04:47Z
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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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