Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 18:00:17 +0100,
  Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> wrote:

Certainly, but if the text in the logfile row is the same, then hashing isn't going to make a blind bit of difference. That's the root of my concern, and something only Dinesh knows.


Sure it is. Because the hash can be used in the primary key instead of
of the error message which should reduce the size of the key enough
that he can use a btree index.

Sorry - obviously not being clear. Since he's using the index via a primary key he'll need the columns that key is over to be unique. If the columns fail that test in the real world, hashing will replace the index-size error with an "unable to insert duplicates" error.

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd

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