I wrote: > Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> writes: >> The CREATE INDEX documentation states: >> "For hash indexes, the value of effective_cache_size is also relevant >> to index creation time: PostgreSQL will use one of two different hash >> index creation methods depending on whether the estimated index size >> is more or less than effective_cache_size.
> Oooh. That should've been changed by 4adc2f72, and then again in > 9563d5b5. Will fix. After looking at that a bit, I'm strongly tempted to just take out the last two sentences of the para, reducing it to the advice concerning maintenance_work_mem. That seems sufficient to describe the current behavior, and given our awful track record about maintaining this documentation, I'm not sure that going into more detail is really a good idea. Comments? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers