Re: Better name/syntax for "online" index creation

From: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Subject: Re: Better name/syntax for "online" index creation
Date: 2006-07-25 14:09:38
Message-ID: 1153836577.22367.3.camel@coppola.muc.ecircle.de
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> Semantically, NOLOCK (or whatever word) seems most closely associated with
> CREATE INDEX, so having it as third word would make sense, and it would be
> quite easy to parse for psql.
>
> Strictly speaking, however, it would have to be NOLOCKLY in that case. :-)

In this case CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY ... sounds better to me, although
the whole feature sounds nice any way you will finally call it ;-)

Cheers,
Csaba.

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