Re: UNIQUE capability to hash indexes

Tom Lane wrote:
> Shubham Barai <shubhambaraiss(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I wanted to know if anyone is working on these projects from todo list.
> > 1.Add UNIQUE capability to hash indexes
> > 2.Allow multi-column hash indexes
>
> Not that I've heard of. It's very hard to muster any enthusiasm for
> improving hash indexes unless their lack of WAL-logging is fixed first.

This is really strange though. Surely adding WAL-logging is not an
enormous task anymore ... I mean, we're undertaking far larger efforts
now, the WAL logging code is simpler than before, and we even have a
tool (ok, gotta streamline that one a little bit) to verify that the
results are correct.

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