Re: [PATCH] cleanup hashindex for pg_migrator hashindex compat mode (for 8.4)

Uhm the rap you quoted was ambiguous but I read it as referring to the
ability I described if viewing the difference between two patches --
which I didn't name but is in fact interdiff.


--
Greg


On 26 May 2009, at 19:58, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> Tom Lane escribió:
>>> IIRC it was demonstrated to be broken the last time it was proposed
>>> as a solution to our problems.  Maybe it's been fixed since then,
>>> but
>>> I don't have any confidence in it, since evidently it's not been
>>> stress
>>> tested very hard.
>
>> I think you're probably confusing it with interdiff.
>
> No, because I never heard of interdiff before.  Checking the archives,
> the discussion I was remembering was definitely about filterdiff, but
> the rap on it was undocumented (so maybe "demonstrated" is too harsh):
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-10/msg01243.php
>
>            regards, tom lane