Re: [HACKERS] Multicolumn hash indexes

Tomasz Ostrowski <tometzky+pg@ato.waw.pl> writes:
> I've noticed that hash indexes can't currently (in PG10) be multicolumn. 
> Are they technically hard to implement or just nobody took such a feature?

It's not simple, particularly not if you wish that the index would support
queries specifying conditions for just a subset of the indexed columns
(an assumption that's buried pretty deeply in the planner, for one thing).
Then you couldn't compute the hash.
        regards, tom lane


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