[HACKERS] Force 8.2 initdb to rename pg_database/pg_class minxid columns?

2006-11-02 Thread Tom Lane
Yesterday I wrote: * On successful completion, the cutoff XID is stored in pg_class.relvacuumxid, and pg_database.datvacuumxid is updated if appropriate. (The minxid columns are now useless, but unless there is another reason to force initdb before 8.2, I'm inclined to leave them there and

Re: [HACKERS] Force 8.2 initdb to rename pg_database/pg_class minxid columns?

2006-11-02 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 05:22:39PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: I prefer to avoid forcing initdb in late beta, because it causes extra work for our long-suffering beta testers, but at the moment I'm thinking this is worth fixing now rather than later. Comments? Given that the column name change