Re: Deprecating Hash Indexes

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Deprecating Hash Indexes
Date: 2012-10-19 09:16:53
Message-ID: CA+U5nMJjtzo=hUv7c8BWX=QTdvtiLNtS_d+QUdo1O5oFDhH=Hw@mail.gmail.com
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On 16 October 2012 04:49, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 11:14 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> I'd be in favor of a warning on create index.
>
> Only if you can turn it off, please.
>
> But I don't think a warning is appropriate if the statement does exactly
> what the user wanted. The place to point out shortcomings of the
> implementation is in the documentation.

Fair comment. I've just added a caution in the docs.

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