Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> -1. If someone asks for a hash index, they should get a hash index.
> If you feel the documentation isn't sufficiently clear about the problems
> involved, we can work on that.
Fair enough.
> Lastly: what real-world problem are we solving by kicking that code
> to the curb?
Well how long did we wait for the fix already? The lack of crash safety
and replication ability is not just a drawback, it's about killing the
user adoption.
Maybe we should implement UNLOGGED indexes and then Hash Indexes would
only exist in the UNLOGGED fashion?
But well, yeah ok, my idea is a non-starter.
Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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