Re: WIP: store additional info in GIN index

On Tue, Dec  4, 2012 at 05:35:24PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > This means to have two versions of code which deals with posting trees and
> > lists. For me it seems unlikely we have resources for maintenance of this.
> 
> Witness how GIN has gone with unfixed bugs for months, even though
> patches to fix them have been posted.  We don't have the manpower to
> maintain even *one* such implementation, let alone two.
> 
> Maybe we can mark GIN indexes as invalid after pg_upgrade somehow, so
> that they require reindex in the new cluster before they can be used for
> queries or index updates.

Yes, pg_upgrade has infrastructure to do that.

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