Re: Error with index on unlogged table

From: Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>
To: Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Error with index on unlogged table
Date: 2015-03-25 12:46:03
Message-ID: CAA-aLv4VDaio6CPy1w_U3LJZEPKxS6pZXpXsqzVn7g34gAQXXw@mail.gmail.com
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On 25 March 2015 at 12:22, Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, March 25, 2015, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Thom Brown wrote:
> > > The index is unlogged until reindexing...
> > >
> > > [...]
> > > Which is think also raises the question, why are unlogged indexes made
> > > persistent by a reindex?
> >
> > That's a bug of HEAD, ~9.4 keeping the index as unlogged even after
> > REINDEX INDEX. What happens is that ReindexIndex relies on
> > relpersistence provided by makeRangeVar at parse time, which is just
> > incorrect as it uses RELPERSISTENCE_PERMANENT all the time. The patch
> > attached fixes that...
> >
>
> How about VACUUM FULL and CLUSTER as the problem seems to have been
> reported to be there too?

No, those are okay. They actually revert the index back to the same
persistence level as the table they're attached to.

--
Thom

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