| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | vadim(at)krs(dot)ru, 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 02:01:20 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.3.96.980629230039.6863L-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, 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?
I'm not sure why it would...creation of indices doesn't write
nything to the table itself, just reads...no?
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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