Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX CONCURRENTLY 2.0

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Sergei Kornilov <sk(at)zsrv(dot)org>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX CONCURRENTLY 2.0
Date: 2018-12-14 12:00:58
Message-ID: 20181214120058.m56xz2mvqieo6nrt@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2018-Dec-14, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> On 14/12/2018 01:23, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 07:14:57PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> >> Based on at least a quick looking around, the actual grammar rule seems
> >> to match my recollection[1], adverbs should typically go AFTER the
> >> verb + object, and the adverb shouldn't ever be placed between the verb
> >> and the object.
> >
> > This part has been a long debate already in 2012-2013 when I sent the
> > first iterations of the patch, and my memories on the matter are that
> > the grammar you are showing here matches with the past agreement.
>
> Do you happen to have a link for that? I didn't find anything.

I think putting the CONCURRENTLY in the parenthesized list of options is
most sensible.

CREATE INDEX didn't have such an option list when we added this feature
there; see
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/200608011143.k71Bh9c22067%40momjian.us#029e9a7ee8cb38beee494ef7891bec1d
for some discussion about that grammar. Our options were not great ...

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