Re: Disabling an index temporarily

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at
Cc: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Disabling an index temporarily
Date: 2015-12-12 11:13:12
Message-ID: 20151212.201312.617523493525438049.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

> Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>>> Wouldn't something like:
>>>
>>> ALTER INDEX foo SET DISABLED;
>>>
>>> See more in line with our grammar?
>>
>> But this will affect other sessions, no?
>
> Not if it is used in a transaction that ends with a ROLLBACK,
> but then you might as well use DROP INDEX, except
> that DROP INDEX takes an access exclusive lock.

I thought about this. Problem with the transaction rollback technique
is, I would not be able to test with an application which runs
multiple transactions.

Best regards,
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Michael Paquier 2015-12-12 11:29:12 Re: Re: In-core regression tests for replication, cascading, archiving, PITR, etc.
Previous Message Julien Rouhaud 2015-12-12 11:01:22 Re: Disabling an index temporarily