Re: Fix stale relcache fields for TOAST indexes during REINDEX CONCURRENTLY

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, saicharh(at)amazon(dot)com
Subject: Re: Fix stale relcache fields for TOAST indexes during REINDEX CONCURRENTLY
Date: 2026-10-29 00:23:38
Message-ID: auKSCvK5NXCk_4yT@paquier.xyz
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On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 09:04:00AM -0700, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> Nice, this is better. I think this approach makes the
> define-index-before-set-valid injection point redundant. I haven't dug
> into it, but maybe reindex-conc-index-built and
> reindex-relation-concurrently-before-{swap, set-dead, drop} too, since
> they all seem to be before a wait for lockers or older snapshots.

If you think that we could remove some of the INJECTION_POINT() macros
without impacting the coverage of the tests, we could do so.

I'm not planning to bother about a couple of lines of code, FWIW, and
the cost of these is low. And there is always the back-branch
consistency argument. As a whole I'm fine with the state of HEAD and
the stable branches.
--
Michael

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