From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX CONCURRENTLY 2.0
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 21:35:57 +0000
Message-ID: <87a7kltmbt.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201812312116.pavh6ts5qeum@alvherre.pgsql>
References: <201812312116.pavh6ts5qeum@alvherre.pgsql>
>>>>> "Alvaro" == Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
Alvaro> After looking at the proposed grammar again today and in danger
Alvaro> of repeating myself, IMO allowing the concurrency keyword to
Alvaro> appear outside the parens would be a mistake. Valid commands:
Alvaro> REINDEX (VERBOSE, CONCURRENTLY) TABLE foo;
Alvaro> REINDEX (CONCURRENTLY) INDEX bar;
We burned that bridge with CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY; to make REINDEX
require different syntax would be too inconsistent.
If we didn't have all these existing uses of CONCURRENTLY without
parens, your argument might have more merit; but we do.
--
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)
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