| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, Jeff Davis <jdavis-pgsql(at)empires(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Why hash indexes suck |
| Date: | 2004-06-10 11:56:47 |
| Message-ID: | 200406101156.i5ABulF10175@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> [blink] This seems to miss out on the actual point of the thread (hash
> >> bucket size shouldn't be a disk page) in favor of an entirely
> >> unsupported sub-suggestion.
>
> > Yes, I was unsure of the text myself. I have changed it to:
> > * Allow hash buckets to fill disk pages, rather than being
> > sparse
>
> OK, though maybe "pack hash index buckets onto disk pages more
> efficiently" would be clearer.
OK, updated.
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