Can we consider this hash thread closed/completed?
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> > Thinks: Why not just sort all of the time and skip the debate entirely?
>
> The sort is demonstrably a loser for smaller indexes. Admittedly,
> if the index is small then the sort can't cost all that much, but if
> the (correct) threshold is some large fraction of shared_buffers then
> it could still take awhile on installations with lots-o-buffers.
>
> The other side of that coin is that it's not clear this is really worth
> arguing about, much less exposing a separate parameter for.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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