Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hK5Rc-00044M-3L for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Fri, 26 Apr 2019 18:19:32 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hK5Ra-0003qL-KQ for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Fri, 26 Apr 2019 18:19:30 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hK5Ra-0003qE-Df for pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; Fri, 26 Apr 2019 18:19:30 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hK5RT-0006fD-PC for pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; Fri, 26 Apr 2019 18:19:30 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id x3QIJJ4X008757; Fri, 26 Apr 2019 14:19:19 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: Alvaro Herrera cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org Subject: Documentation for partitioned indexes? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <8755.1556302759.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 14:19:19 -0400 Message-ID: <8756.1556302759@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Precedence: bulk We appear to have a fair amount of support now for operations like constructing a partitioned index piecemeal, e.g. adding indexes to the partitions one at a time and then attaching them to a parent partitioned index, with the parent ultimately transitioning from "not valid" to "valid" once all the pieces are attached. However, I cannot find any coherent documentation explaining how to do this (or why you'd want to). Am I just looking in the wrong places? regards, tom lane