Re: Building multiple indexes concurrently

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> Rob Wultsch wrote:
>>> At a minimum I assume that if both of the commands were started at
>>> about the same time they would each scan the table in the same
>>> direction and whichever creation was slower would benefit from most of
>>> the table data it needed being prepopulated in shared buffers. Is this
>>> the case?
>
>> This might be optimistic;
>
> No, it's not optimistic in the least, at least not since we implemented
> synchronized seqscans (in 8.3 or thereabouts).
>
>                        regards, tom lane
>

Where can I find details about this in the documentation?

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