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From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
Cc: Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Feature Request: multithreaded reindexdb --concurrently of a single table
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:46:06 +0100
Message-ID: <202502211846.grjzhouis773@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANzqJaCWmJDMvfZR2Zsi=dzjNmRYJoyM_CMLN9L58GEU9YSvYQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 2025-Feb-18, Ron Johnson wrote:

> It would be really really handy to be able to run multiple REINDEX INDEX
> jobs at the same time, either by just specifying the table as above and
> reindexdb automagically getting the index names, or by manually enumerating
> each index, and then see all four REINDEX INDEX statements in
> pg_stat_activity.

I don't think multiple REINDEX commands can run concurrently on the same
table, so this is not a reindexdb issue but a server issue.  And TBH I
think the server feature to support that is not likely to be implemented
soon.

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Álvaro Herrera         PostgreSQL Developer  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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