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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [HACKERS] RE: Unique indexes on system tables
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.02A.9911171209050.29920-100000@Lodjur.DoCS.UU.SE
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In response to RE: Unique indexes on system tables  ("Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] RE: Unique indexes on system tables  (wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck))
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On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Hiroshi Inoue wrote:

> I am only afraid of index corruption.
> The more we have system indexes,the more index corruption would happen.

Just a concerned user question: Why does index corruption seem to happen
so often or is a genuine concern? Wouldn't the next thing be table
corruption? Or are indices optimized for speed rather than correctness
because they don't contain important data?

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Peter Eisentraut                  Sernanders vaeg 10:115
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