Re: Ignore hash indices on replicas

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Steven Schlansker <steven@likeness.com> wrote:
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> On Aug 19, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 00:09 -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote:
>>> show that our particular application is faster by quite a bit when a
>>> hash index is available.
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>> Can you publish the results somewhere? It might provoke some interest.
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> I might be able to spend some time looking at making this public, but the general parameters are:
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> 122M rows, lookup key is a UUID type.  Lookups are ~1000 random keys at a time (as in, a giant SELECT * FROM table
WHEREkey IN (?,?,?,?,…) 

How well cached is the data?

If it has to be read from disk, then a bitmap index scan on a btree
index with effective_io_concurrency set high might do quite well,
assuming you can convince the planner to use one.

Cheers,

Jeff