Re: Online index builds

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Online index builds
Date: 2006-08-01 13:17:23
Message-ID: 20060801131723.GD4172@alvh.no-ip.org
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> > It's not particularly clear to me. On its face this seems to me to imply
> > something about how the index will be able to be used, not about how it
> > is to be built.
>
> Yea, that was always a confusion. CREATE CONCURRENT INDEX has the same
> problem. We need something that talks about the build-time behavior.

How about

CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY?

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