Re: Preventing index scans for non-recoverable index AMs

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 05:42:41PM -0500, Jaime Casanova wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > Hot Standby won't work with hash indexes because they are
> > non-recoverable.
> >
> > We have a number of ways of dealing with this:
> >
> 
> i don't see a reason for inventing the wheel, we don't have wal for
> hash indexes because makes those more slow without any benefit at
> all... now there will be one...
> 
> -- 
> Atentamente,
> Jaime Casanova
> Soporte y capacitaci?n de PostgreSQL
> Asesor?a y desarrollo de sistemas
> Guayaquil - Ecuador
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> 

I think having your index survive a server power outage or other
crash is a very good thing. Rebuilding a hash index for the case
for which it is preferred (large, large tables) would be excrutiating.

Ken