Re: Creating indexes in the background

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: David Lee <davidomundo(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Creating indexes in the background
Date: 2012-10-29 12:00:22
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYZiKNFFwoT65zKayP5yLVxGTJqrG+331CR6iH34VpDZA@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 7:20 PM, David Lee <davidomundo(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> It seems like right now when you want to create an index concurrently, the index creation will get canceled if you cancel the statement (i.e. you must keep your statement open).
>
> Is there a way to "launch" an index creation in the background so that the statement doesn't need to be kept open?

Nope.

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Robert Haas
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