Re: [HACKERS] CLUSTER command progress monitor

On 2019-Sep-13, Robert Haas wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 2:49 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 08:10:58AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > > It's fine if things are updated as well -- it's just you need to make
> > > sure that those places know whether or not they are supposed to be
> > > doing those updates. Again, why can't we just pass down a value
> > > telling them "do reindex-style progress updates" or "do cluster-style
> > > progress updates" or "do no progress updates"?
> >
> > That's invasive. CREATE INDEX reporting goes pretty deep into the
> > tree, with steps dedicated to the builds and scans of btree (nbtsort.c
> > for example) and hash index AMs.

> Well, if CREATE INDEX progress reporting can't be reasonably done
> within the current infrastructure, then it should be reverted for v12
> and not committed again until somebody upgrades the infrastructure.

Ummm ... I've been operating --in this thread-- under the assumption
that it is REINDEX to blame for this problem, not CREATE INDEX, because
my recollection is that I tested CREATE INDEX together with CLUSTER and
it worked fine. Has anybody done any actual research that the problem
is to blame on CREATE INDEX and not REINDEX?

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