On Aug 19, 2012, at 8:01 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Steven Schlansker <ste...@likeness.com> 
> wrote:
>> I'm using Postgres hash indices on a streaming replica master.
>> As is documented, hash indices are not logged, so the replica does not have 
>> access to them.
>> 
>> I understand that the current wisdom is "don't use hash indices", but 
>> (unfortunately?) I have benchmarks that
>> show that our particular application is faster by quite a bit when a hash 
>> index is available.
> 
> You could use a slony slave and have different indexes etc between
> master and slave but it's more complex to setup, maintain and monitor
> for most people.

Thanks for the suggestion, but we finally have replication working in a way we 
understand / like and I don't really consider this a viable option.  The 
built-in replication has been treating us very well.



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