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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Cc: Jim Nasby <jim@nasby.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: REINDEX CONCURRENTLY 2.0
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:23:41 -0500
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On 11/12/14 7:31 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Yes, it sucks. But it beats not being able to reindex a relation with a
> primary key (referenced by a fkey) without waiting several hours by a
> couple magnitudes. And that's the current situation.

That's fine, but we have, for better or worse, defined CONCURRENTLY :=
does not take exclusive locks.  Use a different adverb for an in-between
facility.



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