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

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Hash index creation warning
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Msg-id CA+TgmoYs2Wm_uRSES22dajKjsgD4XW79x_RZARFXeKDf8JNCrA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Hash index creation warning  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
Responses Re: Hash index creation warning  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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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.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company



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