Amit Kapila wrote:
> Yes, I also think the same idea can be used, in fact, I have mentioned
> it [1] as soon as you have committed that patch. Do we want to do
> anything at this stage for PG-10? I don't think we should attempt
> something this late unless people feel this is a show-stopper issue
> for usage of hash indexes. If required, I think a separate function
> can be provided to allow users to perform squeeze operation.
Sorry, I have no idea how critical this squeeze thing is for the
newfangled hash indexes, so I cannot comment on that. Does this make
the indexes unusable in some way under some circumstances?
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