Re: [DOC] Document concurrent index builds waiting on each other

From: James Coleman <jtc331(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, David Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Subject: Re: [DOC] Document concurrent index builds waiting on each other
Date: 2021-01-13 21:08:33
Message-ID: CAAaqYe9-PCuvq=0C39E5UqLHpVShc8tL5nBrB_sXJDgUCVDe=A@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 4:05 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On 2021-Jan-13, James Coleman wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 12:33 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>
> > > This is true. So I propose
> > >
> > > Like any long-running transaction, <command>REINDEX</command> can
> > > affect which tuples can be removed by concurrent <command>VACUUM</command>
> > > on any table.
> >
> > That sounds good to me.
>
> Great, pushed with one more wording tweak: "REINDEX on any table can
> affect ... on any other table". To pg12 and up.

Looks like what got committed is "REINDEX on a table" not "on any",
but I'm not sure that matters too much.

James

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