On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:40:27AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 4:53 AM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:45 AM, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> >> WARNING: hash indexes are not crash-safe, not replicated, and their
> >> use is discouraged
> >
> > +1
>
> I'm not wild about this rewording; I think that if users don't know
> what WAL is, they probably need to know that in order to make good
> decisions about whether to use hash indexes. But I don't feel
> super-strongly about it.
Coming late to this, but I think Robert is right. WAL is used for crash
recovery, PITR, and streaming replication, and I am not sure we want to
specify all of those in the warning message.
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