Re: REINDEX CONCURRENTLY unexpectedly fails

Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2019-11-13 15:29:53 +0100, Manuel Rigger wrote:
>> On the latest trunk version, I get an error "index "t0_pkey_ccnew"
>> already contains data" when using REINDEX CONCURRENTLY:
>>
>> CREATE TEMP TABLE t0(c1 INT PRIMARY KEY) ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS;
>> REINDEX TABLE CONCURRENTLY t0; -- unexpected: ERROR: index
>> "t0_pkey_ccnew" already contains data

> It think we really ought to just refuse CIC (and thereby REINDEX
> CONCURRENTLY) for ON COMMIT DELETE/DROP temp tables. Given that CIC
> internally uses transactions, it makes no sense to use CIC on such a
> table.

It's not real clear why there would be any point in (RE)INDEX
CONCURRENTLY on a temp table anyway, since no other session could
be using it. +1 for just erroring out, rather than working
hard to support such a case.

regards, tom lane