On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:32, Tom Lane wrote: > Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Personally, I think that when one creates a non-btree index, one should > > get a warning saying that non-btree indexes are not necessarily > > transactionally safe in the event of a crash. > > As of 8.1, GIST indexes are WAL-logged, so that would be inappropriate > anyway. Only in this exact instance. It still might make sense to emit such a warning / notice when using a non Wal logged index of any kind though. Glad that GiST indexes got the WAL logging, btw, my tanks to whoever did the work.
