Re: Hash support for row types

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hash support for row types
Date: 2020-10-20 18:41:08
Message-ID: CA+TgmobT6e4uV6JNMND7oM23Q8HUAgyEP4R1w9-G9w9jT0stDg@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 11:10 AM Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 2020-10-20 01:32, Andres Freund wrote:
> > How does this deal with row types with a field that doesn't have a hash
> > function? Erroring out at runtime could cause queries that used to
> > succeed, e.g. because all fields have btree ops, to fail, if we just have
> > a generic unconditionally present hash opclass? Is that an OK
> > "regression"?
>
> Good point. There is actually code in the type cache that is supposed
> to handle that, so I'll need to adjust that.

Do we need to worry about what happens if somebody modifies the
opclass/opfamily definitions?

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Robert Haas
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