From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pg_upgrade problem with invalid indexes |
Date: | 2012-12-07 18:27:08 |
Message-ID: | 20121207182708.GE8476@awork2.anarazel.de |
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On 2012-12-07 10:22:12 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> > Yes, I thought of not dumping it. The problem is that we don't delete
> > the index when it fails, so I assumed we didn't want to lose the index
> > creation information. I need to understand why we did that. Why do we
> > have pg_dump dump the index then?
>
> Because pg_restore will recreate the index from scratch, which is
> presumably what users want most of the time. So this issue doesn't
> exist outside of pg_upgrade.
I wonder though if we shouldn't ignore !indislive indexes in pg_dump
(and the respective bw-compat hack).
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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