Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Release note updates.

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>
> > > May I suggest
> >
> > > + If <command>CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY</> was used to build an index
> > > + that depends on a column not previously indexed, then rows
> > > + updated by transactions that ran concurrently with
> > > + the <command>CREATE INDEX</> command could have missed receiving
> > > + index entries.
> >
> > Can we say "pre-existing rows that were updated by...", or is that
> > too optimistic?
>
> Hmm. Now that I think about it, it is probably possible to have a
> transaction started before CIC that inserted a bunch of rows, and then
> runs the UPDATE during the CIC race window. Maybe there's a reason the
> bug wouldn't hit in that case but I don't see it, and I'm not able to
> test it right now to verify.

Pavan adds that it's possible to have a transaction do INSERT while CIC
is running, then some other transaction executes the UPDATE.

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