On 2014-05-14 14:55:38 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 05/13/2014 05:13 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> >That leaves the spgist thing and some infrastructure till we can setup a
> >valgrind animal... From what we've caught with it so far that seems
> >rather worthwile.
> >What's your plans with your spgist fix? Commit it once 9.5 is branched?
>
> Good question. I don't know. I would still like to commit it to 9.4. It
> doesn't require catalog changes, but it's an incompatible change in the WAL
> record format. If we commit it to 9.4, it means that you cannot replicate
> between 9.4beta1 and 9.4beta2. I think that's OK, but how do others feel
> about that?
I personally think that's not too bad.
Alternatively we could come up with a second way that's not breaking the
WAL format. I'd feel better if we had a back patchable fix...
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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