Re: BUG #15609: synchronous_commit=off insert performance regression with secondary indexes

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: "Saul, Jean Paolo" <paolo(dot)saul(at)verizonconnect(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #15609: synchronous_commit=off insert performance regression with secondary indexes
Date: 2019-01-31 14:35:58
Message-ID: 20190131143558.GC22941@momjian.us
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 04:08:39PM +1300, Saul, Jean Paolo wrote:
> Additional tests replacing BTREE indexes with HASH indexes indicate that hash
> indexes do not suffer from low-cardinality performance regression.
> However I cannot use hash indexes in our systems as they are discouraged.

Hash indexes are crash safe since PG 10 so their use is no longer
discouraged, at least from a project perspective.

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