> > We could fix this either by adding a new hash function to support
> > macaddr, or by removing the pg_amXXX entries that claim macaddr is
> > hashable.  Either change will not take effect without an initdb,
> > however, and I'm loath to force one now that we've started beta.
> 
> If we're going to add CRC to log then we need 
> in beta anyway...
^^^^^^^^^
Ops - we need in INITDB...

> Are we going?

Vadim

Fri, 8 Dec 2000 13:53:09 -0800 
"Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>
RE: Hash index on macaddr -> crash
"Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM> writes:
>>>> hashable.  Either change will not take effect without an initdb,
>>>> however, and I'm loath to force one now that we've started beta.
>> 
>> If we're going to add CRC to log then we need 
>> in beta anyway...
> Ops - we need in INITDB...

Not to mention adding a CRC to page headers, which was the other part of
the thread.

>> Are we going?

I dunno.  For now, I'll put in the hash function but not force an
initdb.  If we do the CRC thing then we'll have the initdb at that
point.

			regards, tom lane

Fri, 08 Dec 2000 17:17:32 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: Hash index on macaddr -> crash 