"Heikki Linnakangas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> mx wrote:
>> By the way, I'm writing proposal for multi-column hash now.
> The biggest problem with the hash index is currently that there's no
> significant performance over b-tree. If you want to work on hash
> indexes, I would suggest doing benchmarking and looking at ways to
> improve performance, before spending time on making it multi-column
> capable.
Quite. There are already some people investigating that, but maybe you
could join forces with them.
> And missing WAL logging is a big issue as well.
Yeah, but again there seems little point in doing that work until/unless
there is a demonstrable performance use-case for hash indexes.
regards, tom lane
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