Re: todo: Hash index creation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: todo: Hash index creation
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Msg-id 4682C5D1.2070704@enterprisedb.com
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In response to todo: Hash index creation  (twraney@comcast.net)
Responses Re: todo: Hash index creation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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twraney@comcast.net wrote:
> Is anyone currently working on this TODO item?  
> 
> "During index creation, pre-sort the tuples to improve build speed"
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01199.php
> 
> A few of us would like to tackle it and see if we can add some value here.  

That would be nice!

If you want to work on hash indexes, though, this TODO item seems more 
important to me at least:

> Add WAL logging for crash recovery

Until that's done, you can't really use hash indexes for anything else 
than read-only tables.

--   Heikki Linnakangas  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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