Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Release note updates.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Release note updates.
Date: 2017-02-07 14:17:25
Message-ID: 27218.1486477045@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Release note updates.

> Sorry for not noticing earlier, but there is a bug in the notes:

Mmm, right.

> 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?

(I fear this is too late for the current set of releases; I don't want
to make the packagers redo their work just for this. But we can correct
it for future wraps.)

regards, tom lane

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