Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: > How exactly would you know whether the previous installation was built > without HAVE_WCSTOMBS/HAVE_TOWLOWER? That's not exposed anywhere > reliable. And it's not out of the question that somebody upgrading to > a newer PG version might upgrade his OS too, so I would not think that > checking what configure says now is trustworthy.
Oh, it's even worse than I imagined then. If you don't know where to find the information, maybe the release notes should just propose to REINDEX in any case? > In general, though, this suggestion seems about two orders of magnitude > more work than the particular case justifies. We might want to think > about something like it for future releases, but it's not likely to > happen for 9.3. Yeah, I've been thinking that it's the case after sending the email proposal. It might just be some accumulative effect that leads me to that proposal. I still think that a tool able to asses if you're concerned by "reindex gist indexes on that datatype" or suchlike would be really good to have. Regards, -- Dimitri Fontaine http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
