Re: Issues with ON CONFLICT UPDATE and REINDEX CONCURRENTLY

On 2025-Dec-09, Mihail Nikalayeu wrote:

> Hello!
>
> After some investigation I ended up with a much simpler fix.
> It is self-explanatory in code and a commit message.

Yeah, that makes sense. It's what I was trying to say in
https://postgr.es/m/202512072050.hcyysny65ugj@alvherre.pgsql
Pushed your patch, thanks.

I still wonder if it's possible to break things by doing something like

CREATE TABLE pt (a int) PARTITION BY LISt (a);
CREATE TABLE p1 PARTITION OF pt FOR VALUES IN (1);
CREATE TABLE p2 PARTITION OF pt FOR VALUES IN (2);
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX pti ON ONLY pt (a);
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX p1i ON p1 (a);
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX p2i ON p2 (a);
ALTER INDEX pti ATTACH PARTITION p1i;

and then do the
INSERT INTO pt VALUES (1) ON CONFLICT (a) DO NOTHING;
dance concurrently with
ALTER INDEX pti ATTACH PARTITION p2i;

This would be a much smaller problem than the already fixed ones though,
I think.

Thanks!

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