Hi.
I've noticed that hash indexes can't currently (in PG10) be multicolumn.
Are they technically hard to implement or just nobody took such a feature?
I think multicolumn hash indexes should help pretty significantly with
queries like:
- where username=? and user_post_id=?
- where client_id=? and period=? and invoice_number=?
etc.
I imagine that calculating a multicolumn hash should be pretty
straightforward to implement - after hashing bytes of first column just
keep going and update the hash state with bytes of a second and
subsequent columns. And it should allow for faster (O(1), less IO) and
much smaller (better cached, less IO again) multicolumn indexes. Also in
PG10 hash indexes are WAL-logged and therefore much easier to work with.
What do you think?
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Tomasz "Tometzky" Ostrowski
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