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Re: todo: Hash index creation


  • From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
  • To: twraney(at)comcast(dot)net
  • Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: todo: Hash index creation
  • Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:17:21 +0100
  • Message-id: <4682C5D1(dot)2070704(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>

twraney(at)comcast(dot)net wrote:
Is anyone currently working on this TODO item?
"During index creation, pre-sort the tuples to improve build speed"
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01199.php

A few of us would like to tackle it and see if we can add some value here.

That would be nice!

If you want to work on hash indexes, though, this TODO item seems more important to me at least:

Add WAL logging for crash recovery

Until that's done, you can't really use hash indexes for anything else than read-only tables.

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  Heikki Linnakangas
  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com



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