Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> writes: > text -> xml BTW, that reminds me of something that I think was mentioned way back when, but absolutely fails to fit into any of the frameworks discussed here: the mere fact that a type is binary-compatible (with or without checking) doesn't make it compatible enough to not have to recreate indexes. Where and how are we going to have a wart to determine if that's necessary? And if the answer is "rebuild indexes whenever the data type changes", isn't that a further big dent in the argument that it's worth avoiding a table rewrite? A text->xml replacement is going to be far from cheap anyway.
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