On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 3:18 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Apparently there are people out there with catalogs big enough
> to justify parallel reindex. I don't mind if the first version of
> the feature doesn't handle that, but probably we should make it work
> eventually.
Okay. I'll pursue this in HEAD.
> Well, maybe, but why is that field particularly vulnerable? I'd think you
> should crosscheck the index's relfilenode too, at least, if you're going
> to worry about that.
I agree.
I'd like to hear more opinions on the general idea. I'm particularly
interested in what Robert thinks.
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Peter Geoghegan