Re: WAL logging of hash indexes

From: "Gokulakannan Somasundaram" <gokul007(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "John Smith" <sodgodofall(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WAL logging of hash indexes
Date: 2008-01-16 08:38:33
Message-ID: 9362e74e0801160038j4bbec4c8s24ae84a672f76b54@mail.gmail.com
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>
> There is absolutely 0 value in tackling that until someone can fix
> hash's performance problems. If there is no real-world scenario for
> using it ... which there really isn't ... then adding WAL support
> still leaves you with no real-world scenario for using it.
>
> This is not to suggest that I wouldn't like to see all of that fixed;
> I would. But let's concentrate on the showstoppers first, rather than
> expending effort that might ultimately be a waste.
>
>
> I agree on that. I think working on Hash clusters would add more use-cases
than working on hash-indexes.

Thanks,
Gokul.

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