Re: pg_migrator and an 8.3-compatible tsvector data type

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Given that it's going to prevent users of Tsearch from 
>> upgrading-in-place, the format change ought to be giving us some serious 
>> gains.  Otherwise we should put it off until we need to make other 
>> datatype changes.

> No idea but now that we are in beta we would then be invalidating beta
> tester data.  The area I got stuck on is that there is no CAST behavior
> when creating an index.  We are already invalidating GIN indexes, but I
> can't even create an index to support the old data type.

It's certainly doable.  Bruce is just applying the strategy he mentioned
in our talk ;-)
        regards, tom lane