Re: Error with index on unlogged table

From: Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Error with index on unlogged table
Date: 2015-03-25 13:45:41
Message-ID: CA+HiwqG6jQuFP-k6K1BVApURn8KdV+s9nLy067aX_7YWrVn+Hg@mail.gmail.com
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On Wednesday, March 25, 2015, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> wrote:

> On 25 March 2015 at 12:22, Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com');>> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, March 25, 2015, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com');>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Thom Brown wrote:
>> > > The index is unlogged until reindexing...
>> > >
>> > > [...]
>> > > Which is think also raises the question, why are unlogged indexes made
>> > > persistent by a reindex?
>> >
>> > That's a bug of HEAD, ~9.4 keeping the index as unlogged even after
>> > REINDEX INDEX. What happens is that ReindexIndex relies on
>> > relpersistence provided by makeRangeVar at parse time, which is just
>> > incorrect as it uses RELPERSISTENCE_PERMANENT all the time. The patch
>> > attached fixes that...
>> >
>>
>> How about VACUUM FULL and CLUSTER as the problem seems to have been
>> reported to be there too?
>
>
> No, those are okay. They actually revert the index back to the same
> persistence level as the table they're attached to.
>

Ah, I misread then; sorry about the noise.

Amit

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