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