Re: Ignore hash indices on replicas

On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 00:09 -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote:
> I understand that the current wisdom is "don't use hash indices", but
> (unfortunately?) I have benchmarks that
> show that our particular application is faster by quite a bit when a
> hash index is available.

Can you publish the results somewhere? It might provoke some interest.

> I assume that fixing the hash index logging issue hasn't been a
> priority due to low interest / technical limitations, but I'm curious
> for a stopgap measure -- can we somehow configure Postgres to ignore
> hash indices on a replica, using other b-tree indices or even a
> sequential scan? I know I can do this on a per-connection basis by
> disabling various index lookup methods, but it'd be nice if it just
> ignored invalid indices on its own.

This might work for you:

http://sigaev.ru/git/gitweb.cgi?p=plantuner.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=README.plantuner

Regards,
Jeff Davis