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Remove documentation mention that hash indexes perform no better than
btree; keep mention about missing WAL logging. Kenneth Marshall
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doc/src/sgml/indices.sgml

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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/indices.sgml,v 1.75 2008/09/23 09:20:34 heikki Exp $ -->
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/indices.sgml,v 1.76 2009/02/07 20:05:44 momjian Exp $ -->
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<chapter id="indexes">
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<title id="indexes-title">Indexes</title>
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<note>
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Testing has shown <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>'s hash
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indexes to perform no better than B-tree indexes, and the
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index size and build time for hash indexes is much worse.
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Furthermore, hash index operations are not presently WAL-logged,
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Hash index operations are not presently WAL-logged,
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so hash indexes might need to be rebuilt with <command>REINDEX</>
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after a database crash.
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For these reasons, hash index use is presently discouraged.
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For this reason, hash index use is presently discouraged.
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