Re: CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY on partitioned index

On 28.01.2021 17:30, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 09:51:51PM +0900, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 5:22 AM Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 01:31:17AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>>>> Forking this thread, since the existing CFs have been closed.
>>>> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200914143102.GX18552%40telsasoft.com#58b1056488451f8594b0f0ba40996afd
>>>>
>>>> The strategy is to create catalog entries for all tables with indisvalid=false,
>>>> and then process them like REINDEX CONCURRENTLY. If it's interrupted, it
>>>> leaves INVALID indexes, which can be cleaned up with DROP or REINDEX, same as
>>>> CIC on a plain table.
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 01:37:44AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 09:37:42PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>>>> Note that the mentioned problem wasn't serious: there was missing index on
>>>>> child table, therefor the parent index was invalid, as intended. However I
>>>>> agree that it's not nice that the command can fail so easily and leave behind
>>>>> some indexes created successfully and some failed some not created at all.
>>>>>
>>>>> But I took your advice initially creating invalid inds.
>>>> ...
>>>>> That gave me the idea to layer CIC on top of Reindex, since I think it does
>>>>> exactly what's needed.
>>>> On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 02:56:55PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 05:11:03PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>>>>> It would be good also to check if
>>>>>> we have a partition index tree that maps partially with a partition
>>>>>> table tree (aka no all table partitions have a partition index), where
>>>>>> these don't get clustered because there is no index to work on.
>>>>> This should not happen, since a incomplete partitioned index is "invalid".

>>>>> I had been waiting to rebase since there hasn't been any review comments and I
>>>>> expected additional, future conflicts.
>>>>>

I attempted to review this feature, but the last patch conflicts with
the recent refactoring, so I wasn't able to test it properly.
Could you please send a new version?

Meanwhile, here are my questions about the patch:

1) I don't see a reason to change the logic here. We don't skip counting
existing indexes when create parent index. Why should we skip them in
CONCURRENTLY mode?

            // If concurrent, maybe this should be done after excluding
indexes which already exist ?
pgstat_progress_update_param(PROGRESS_CREATEIDX_PARTITIONS_TOTAL,
                                         nparts);

2) Here we access relation field after closing the relation. Is it safe?

    /* save lockrelid and locktag for below */
    heaprelid = rel->rd_lockInfo.lockRelId;

3) leaf_partitions() function only handles indexes, so I suggest to name
it more specifically and add a comment about meaning of 'options' parameter.

4) I don't quite understand the idea of the regression test. Why do we
expect to see invalid indexes there?
+    "idxpart_a_idx1" UNIQUE, btree (a) INVALID

5) Speaking of documentation, I think we need to add a paragraph about
CIC on partitioned indexes which will explain that invalid indexes may
appear and what user should do to fix them.

6) ReindexIndexesConcurrently() needs some code cleanup.

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