Re: GSoC on WAL-logging hash indexes

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tan Tran <tankimtran(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: GSoC on WAL-logging hash indexes
Date: 2014-04-30 19:57:50
Message-ID: 20140430195750.GA6018@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Greg Stark (stark(at)mit(dot)edu) wrote:

> > I could do the legwork on either the GUC or moving hash indexes to an
> > extension if there's a consensus. But I suspect either will be quite
> > controversial...

> If you'd like to build an extension which provides hash indexes- I say
> go for it? Nothing stopping you as far as that's concerned.

Extensions can't write/replay WAL, so it's not clear to me how would this
work.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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