Re: Nasty problem in hash indexes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: Nasty problem in hash indexes
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Msg-id 20030829020252.GF63737@home.samurai.com
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In response to Re: Nasty problem in hash indexes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Nasty problem in hash indexes
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 05:37:39PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > If so, then how many other bugs are lurking in the hash index code
> > waiting to bite?
> 
> <shrug> Who's to say?  We've found bugs in the btree logic recently,
> too.

I'd rather print a loud warning when a hash index is created, but keep
the code in the tree, than just remove it entirely. That way, we'll
avoid unnecessary bit-rot to some degree, and if someone feels that
they absolutely positively need hash indexes, they will have some
existing work to begin from.

-Neil



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