Re: Tricky bugs in concurrent index build

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>> Wow, that seems pretty unsatisfactory, all the waiting and locking sounds
>> awful.
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> Yeah, I'm very unhappy. The whole idea may be going down in flames :-(
> It's fairly clear that we could support concurrent builds of nonunique
> indexes, but is that enough of a use-case to justify it?

I believe there would be. Most PostgreSQL users I run into, develop in
production, which means being able to add an index they forgot when
doing query analysis.

Most of the time (I would say >95%) this is not a unique index.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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> regards, tom lane
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> TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
> choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
> match
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