On Wed, 2 May 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
> Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com> writes:
> > What parts of the changes would require an initdb, would new
> > functions need to be added or the index ops need to change or would
> > it be fixes to the existing functions (if the latter, wouldn't a recompile
> > and dropping/recreating the indexes be enough?)
>
> Yes, dropping and recreating any user indexes that contain the problematic
> values would be sufficient to get you out of trouble. We don't need any
> system catalog changes for this, AFAICS.
Looking back, I misread the original message. I thought you were saying
that it needed to wait for an initdb and so would be bad in a dot release,
but it was just the breaking of indexes thing, but since they're already
pretty broken, I don't see much of a loss by fixing it.