From: | Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | David G Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Re: BUG #10329: Could not read block 0 in file "base/56100265/57047884": read only 0 of 8192 bytes |
Date: | 2014-09-10 21:54:39 |
Message-ID: | 1410386079.84759.YahooMailNeo@web122306.mail.ne1.yahoo.com |
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 02:07:36PM -0700, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 11:07:43AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>> Here is a patch which implements the warning during CREATE INDEX
> ...
>>>> HASH. If WAL-logging of hash indexes is ever implemented, we can remove
>>>> this warning.
>>>
>>> Applied, though I used the term "streaming standbys" to match our docs.
>>
>> Hmm. The wording of the warning doesn't seem to really indicate
>> the full scope of the limitation. Any a standby (warm or hot)
>> maintained by WAL file copying would also be affected (i.e.,
>> streaming replication as the WAL delivery mechanism is irrelevant),
>> and you also have problems after a database crash or PANIC. I'm
>> not sure how to state that concisely, though.
>
> I am open to improved wording. :-)
Instead of:
hash indexes are not WAL-logged so they are not crash-safe and cannot be used on streaming standbys
how about?:
hash indexes are not WAL-logged and thus are not crash-safe and cannot be used on standby servers
That seems consistent with the terminology used here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/warm-standby.html
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Kevin Grittner
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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