On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 11:26 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org> writes:
>>>> hash: Add write-ahead logging support.
>>>
>>> This bit in access/hash/README, lines 368ff, appears obsolete:
>>>
>>> Although we can survive a failure to split a bucket, a crash is likely to
>>> corrupt the index, since hash indexes are not yet WAL-logged.
>>>
>>> Perhaps we can just delete that para. If not, what should it say now?
>>
>> That's obsolete, and can just be removed.
>>
>
> Agreed and posted a patch on hackers [1]
Also the obsolete warning message appears in .po files and the mb tests:
$ git grep 'and their use is discouraged'
src/backend/po/de.po:msgid "hash indexes are not WAL-logged and their
use is discouraged"
src/backend/po/es.po:msgid "hash indexes are not WAL-logged and their
use is discouraged"
src/backend/po/fr.po:msgid "hash indexes are not WAL-logged and their
use is discouraged"
src/backend/po/it.po:msgid "hash indexes are not WAL-logged and their
use is discouraged"
src/backend/po/pl.po:msgid "hash indexes are not WAL-logged and their
use is discouraged"
src/backend/po/ru.po:msgid "hash indexes are not WAL-logged and their
use is discouraged"
src/backend/po/zh_CN.po:msgid "hash indexes are not WAL-logged and
their use is discouraged"
src/test/mb/expected/big5.out:WARNING: hash indexes are not
WAL-logged and their use is discouraged
src/test/mb/expected/euc_jp.out:WARNING: hash indexes are not
WAL-logged and their use is discouraged
src/test/mb/expected/euc_kr.out:WARNING: hash indexes are not
WAL-logged and their use is discouraged
src/test/mb/expected/euc_tw.out:WARNING: hash indexes are not
WAL-logged and their use is discouraged
src/test/mb/expected/gb18030.out:WARNING: hash indexes are not
WAL-logged and their use is discouraged
src/test/mb/expected/mule_internal.out:WARNING: hash indexes are not
WAL-logged and their use is discouraged
src/test/mb/expected/mule_internal.out:WARNING: hash indexes are not
WAL-logged and their use is discouraged
src/test/mb/expected/sjis.out:WARNING: hash indexes are not
WAL-logged and their use is discouraged
src/test/mb/expected/utf8.out:WARNING: hash indexes are not
WAL-logged and their use is discouraged
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Thomas Munro
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