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On 02/11/2011 12:26 PM, Tobias Brox wrote:
> 2011/2/11 Vitalii Tymchyshyn<tivv00@gmail.com>:
>>> My idea as well, though it looks ugly and it would be a maintenance
>>> head-ache (upgrading the index as new transaction types are added
>>> would mean "costly" write locks on the table,
>>
>> Create new one concurrently.
>
> Concurrently?  Are there any ways to add large indexes without
> blocking inserts to the table for the time it takes to create the
> index?

yep, AFAIR since 8.2
see: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/sql-createindex.html#SQL-CREATEINDEX-CONCURRENTLY

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Andrea