| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, Hiroshi Inoue <inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Improving REINDEX for system indexes (long) |
| Date: | 2003-09-28 00:18:07 |
| Message-ID: | 200309280018.h8S0I7U26535@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> > What about creating a separate filenode anyway and renaming the files
> > afterwards? It would not be an atomic operation anyway, but it would be
> > better than the current setup IMHO.
>
> I think it would be difficult to persuade the buffer manager and storage
> manager to work with this; from their point of view you'd be moving a
> relation underneath them. I doubt it's really worth the trouble; how
> often do you need to reindex a shared catalog?
The point I missed originally is that he is talking about shared
catalogs, not system catalogs, which work fine in CVS.
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