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Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-03-07T00:50:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 03/07/2013 08:41 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2013-03-07 08:37:40 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
>> On 03/06/2013 07:34 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>> It'd be difficult to change the algorithm in a future release without
>>> breaking on-disk compatibility,
>> On-disk compatibility is broken with major releases anyway, so I don't
>> see this as a huge barrier.
> Uh, pg_upgrade?
Yeah. I was thinking that pg_upgrade copes with a lot of
incompatibilities already, but this is lower-level. Darn.

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