Re: [HACKERS] RE: Unique indexes on system tables

From: Peter Eisentraut <e99re41(at)DoCS(dot)UU(dot)SE>
To: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] RE: Unique indexes on system tables
Date: 1999-11-17 11:11:39
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.02A.9911171209050.29920-100000@Lodjur.DoCS.UU.SE
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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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