Re: [HACKERS] now 6.4

From: Vadim Mikheev <vadim(at)krs(dot)ru>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, dg(at)illustra(dot)com, miker(at)hub(dot)org, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] now 6.4
Date: 1998-06-30 04:20:02
Message-ID: 35986772.E9DA0D0C@krs.ru
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > As for dropping/recreating all indices...that isn't really so bad,
> > anyway...once all the data is there, th edatabase can go live...albeit
> > *very* slow, in some cases, if I have 4 indices on a table, each one built
> > should improve the speed of queries, but each build shouldn't limit the
> > ability for the database to be up...
>
> Doesn't index creation lock the table?

Lock for read...

Vadim

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