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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX CONCURRENTLY 2.0
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>
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On 1/16/19 9:27 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:> Regarding the grammar, we 
tend for the last couple of years to avoid
> complicating the main grammar and move on to parenthesized grammars
> (see VACUUM, ANALYZE, EXPLAIN, etc).  So in the same vein I think that
> it would make sense to only support CONCURRENTLY within parenthesis
> and just plugin that with the VERBOSE option.

Personally I do not care, but there have been a lot of voices for 
keeping REINDEX CONCURRENTLY consistent with CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY 
and DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY.

> Does somebody mind if I jump into the ship after so long?  I was the
> original author of the monster after all...

Fine by me. Peter?

Andreas