Re: REINDEX CONCURRENTLY unexpectedly fails

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Manuel Rigger <rigger(dot)manuel(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: REINDEX CONCURRENTLY unexpectedly fails
Date: 2019-11-13 16:45:34
Message-ID: 19198.1573663534@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2019-11-13 10:59:08 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It's not real clear why there would be any point in (RE)INDEX
>> CONCURRENTLY on a temp table anyway, since no other session could
>> be using it.

> I guess it's not necessarily always clear in all contexts that one is
> dealing with a temp table, rather than a normal table.

That's a good point.

> I wonder if we instead ought to just ignore the CONCURRENTLY when
> targetting a temp table? That'd be a correct optimization for temp
> tables, and would fix the issue at hand...

Oh, I like that idea. Keeps applications from having to think
about this.

regards, tom lane

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