Re: I don't want to back up index files

Glen Parker escribió:

> That's two people now who have called the idea "silly" without even a
> hint of a supporting argument.  Why would it be "silly" to improve the
> performance of a highly valuable tool set without compromising its
> utility?  Am I missing something here?  That's certainly possible, but
> the idea didn't just hatch last night; I've put enough thought into this
> to have reason to believe it's more than just "silly".

FWIW I don't think this idea is silly at all.  It's so not-silly, in
fact, that we already have some access methods that do this if an index
cannot be recovered (I think at least GiST does it).

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