On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:58:11PM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
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> On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 16:47 -0600, Kenneth Marshall wrote:
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> > I think having your index survive a server power outage or other
> > crash is a very good thing. Rebuilding a hash index for the case
> > for which it is preferred (large, large tables) would be excrutiating.
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> Completely agree.
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> We may be outta time to make it happen.
>
I agree. I was working on adding the WAL and ran up against the
deadline. A rushed hash WAL implementation would be worse than the
other alternatives. I plan on picking it back up after 8.4 is out
the door.
Regards,
Ken