Re: What is wrong with hashed index usage?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>
Cc: Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Neil Conway <nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org>, mloftis(at)wgops(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What is wrong with hashed index usage?
Date: 2002-06-22 04:01:02
Message-ID: 200206220401.g5M413214276@candle.pha.pa.us
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Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> > So, is you vote for or against the elog(NOTICE)?
>
> OK, if we are still voting, then I'll mention that I generally dislike
> the idea of notices of this kind. And would not like this notice in
> particular. So would vote no with both hands ;)
>
> I'm pretty sure that we have a consensus policy (hmm, at least if a
> consensus consists of repeated votes on one question or the other) that
> notices to protect people from doing what they ask the system to do are
> not generally desirable.
>
> Putting messages in as a spur to development is not particularly
> effective; witness a few chapters in the docs which consist of "This
> needs to be written. Any volunteers?" and which have stayed untouched
> for three years now ;)

OK, elog(NOTICE) is voted down. SGML docs are updated. We don't need
an FAQ item for this, do we?

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