I'm on the way to open a ticket for hash indexes (adding WAL support) anyway:
May I open a ticket for adding GiST support to unlogged tables ?
Stefan
2011/9/14 Stefan Keller <sfkeller@gmail.com>:
> Robert,
>
> 2011/9/6 Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>:
>> GiST use serial numbers of operations for concurrency. In current
>> implementation xlog record ids are used in capacity of that numbers. In
>> unlogged table no xlog records are produced. So, we haven't serial numbers
>> of operations. AFAIK, it's enough to provide some other source of serial
>> number in order to make GiST work with unlogged tables.
>
> GiST is IMHO quite broadly used. I use it for example for indexing
> geometry and hstore types and there's no other choice there.
> Do you know whether unlogged option in create table will support GiST
> in the next release?
>
> Stefan
>
