On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 03:45, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
[snip]
> Some people have claimed that the big commercial databases don't change their
> on-disk represantation anymore. Maybe PostgreSQL could try to aim for this
> goal. At least try to get the on-disk changes ready for 7.5 - with or without
> the functionality to use it. I think that any pg_* table changes could be
> done with a small and efficient pg_upgrade.
[snip]
I think changes in the system catalog should be separated from
changes in the physical on-disk structures (i.e. how tables and
indexes are stored).
Maybe I'm totally wrong, but ALTERing the pg_* tables during each
version upgrade should be relatively easy to script, when the phys-
ical on-disk structures have been solidified.
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