Re: pg_migrator and an 8.3-compatible tsvector data type

Tom Lane wrote:
> 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 ;-)

Kind of --- I am stuck because we don't auto-cast for index usage like
we do for function calls and operators, so I will just keep going and
disable tsvector.

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