Re: Add important info about ANALYZE after create Functional Index

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Add important info about ANALYZE after create Functional Index
Date: 2020-10-29 01:59:52
Message-ID: 20201029015952.GB2671@paquier.xyz
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 12:02:11AM +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 05:43:08PM -0300, Fabrízio de Royes Mello wrote:
>> 2) REINDEX CONCURRENTLY does not keep statistics (pg_statistc) like a
>> regular REINDEX for indexes using expressions and to me it's a bug. Michael
>> pointed out upthread that maybe we should rework a bit
>> index_concurrently_swap() to copy statistics from old index to new one.
>
> Yeah. Not sure it counts as a bug, but I see what you mean - it's
> definitely an unexpected/undesirable difference in behavior between
> plain REINDEX and concurrent one.

REINDEX CONCURRENTLY is by design wanted to provide an experience
transparent to the user similar to what a plain REINDEX would do, at
least that's the idea behind it, so.. This qualifies as a bug to me,
in spirit.
--
Michael

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