From: Jim Starkey
Date: January 31 2009 11:33pm
Subject: Re: NULLs and stuff
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Vladislav Vaintroub wrote:
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>> Correct me if I am wrong, however Jim's design allows for a database
>> version
>> counter that we can increment in order to handle older tablespaces the
>> way
>> we handled them previously and handle new tablespaces the new way.
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> Maybe , but my point is not to do it, even if possibility is there. After
> release, we need to handle backward compatibility. Before release, we do
> not.
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Nope, Vlad.  Falcon is a beta and we shouldn't obsolete databases.  
Besides, you'd still have to change the minor version number to prevent 
crashes on older databases.

Just introduce a new index version and get on with life.
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