Re: REINDEX CONCURRENTLY 2.0

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: REINDEX CONCURRENTLY 2.0
Date: 2017-03-02 01:25:23
Message-ID: af867d20-1406-38c0-0a58-2cf1fce7240f@BlueTreble.com
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On 2/28/17 11:21 AM, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
> The only downside I can see to this approach is that we no logner will
> able to reindex catalog tables concurrently, but in return it should be
> easier to confirm that this approach can be made work.

Another downside is any stored regclass fields will become invalid.
Admittedly that's a pretty unusual use case, but it'd be nice if there
was at least a way to let users fix things during the rename phase
(perhaps via an event trigger).
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