Re: HASH_BLOBS hazards (was Re: PATCH: logical_work_mem and logical streaming of large in-progress transactions) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2020-12-13 17:49, Tom Lane wrote:
> 2. Don't allow a default: invent a new HASH_STRING flag, and
> require that hash_create() calls specify exactly one of HASH_BLOBS,
> HASH_STRING, or HASH_FUNCTION.  This doesn't completely fix the
> hazard of mindless-copy-and-paste, but I think it might make it
> a little more obvious.  Still requires touching a lot of calls.

I think this sounds best, and also expand the documentation of these 
flags a bit.

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