On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 14:08 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> >> * Operations on hash indexes are not presently WAL-logged, so replay will not update these indexes. Hash indexes
willnot be used for query plans during recovery.
>
> > The initial patch indeed had a special-case in the planner to ignore
> > hash indexes during hot standby, but it was left out because the lack of
> > WAL-logging is a general problem with hash indexes, not a hot standby
> > issue.
>
> Yeah, and also the index would still be broken after the slave exits hot
> standby and becomes live; so that hack didn't cure the problem anyway.
OK, that's a good argument.
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