btree; keep mention about missing WAL logging.
Kenneth Marshall
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+
Indexes
- Testing has shown
PostgreSQL's hash
- indexes to perform no better than B-tree indexes, and the
- index size and build time for hash indexes is much worse.
- Furthermore, hash index operations are not presently WAL-logged,
+ Hash index operations are not presently WAL-logged,
so hash indexes might need to be rebuilt with REINDEX>
after a database crash.
- For these reasons, hash index use is presently discouraged.
+ For this reason, hash index use is presently discouraged.