On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:40:27AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 4:53 AM, Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:45 AM, Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > >> WARNING: hash indexes are not crash-safe, not replicated, and their > >> use is discouraged > > > > +1 > > I'm not wild about this rewording; I think that if users don't know > what WAL is, they probably need to know that in order to make good > decisions about whether to use hash indexes. But I don't feel > super-strongly about it.
Coming late to this, but I think Robert is right. WAL is used for crash recovery, PITR, and streaming replication, and I am not sure we want to specify all of those in the warning message. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + Everyone has their own god. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
