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From: Marinos Yannikos <mjy@geizhals.at>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Odd error message (" hash indexes do not support whole-index
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 04:08:24 +0200
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Good catch.  But why are you using a hash index for this?

Just experimenting - I was trying to determine whether a hash index 
would give better performance - the values are always unique except when 
they're 0 and < > relations are never needed. That particular query 
would have been needed only once for maintainance work.

Regards,
  Marinos



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