Re: Catalog Access (was: [GENERAL] Concurrency problem

From: Wes <wespvp(at)syntegra(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
Cc: Wes <wespvp(at)syntegra(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Catalog Access (was: [GENERAL] Concurrency problem
Date: 2006-04-27 02:06:11
Message-ID: C0759143.B141%wespvp@syntegra.com
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On 4/26/06 5:42 PM, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Yeah, this is probably the best workaround for now. I think we should
> look at making it fully concurrent-safe per upthread comments, but that
> won't be happening in existing release branches.

I changed the index build script such that for each table it builds one
index by itself, then builds the remaining indexes in parallel. This
appears to be stable. I made several runs with no errors. I've got some
more testing to do, then I'll try my big run.

Thanks

Wes

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