Re: In 7.3.1, will I be able to reindex toast?

Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Mario Weilguni <mweilguni(at)sime(dot)com> writes:
> > Hmm... how about pg_largeobject?
> > It seems to be treated like a system table, but I think it is not
> > necessary. Does the reindex command simply check the "pg_" prefix?
>
> As of 7.3, I believe it treats any table living in the pg_catalog schema
> as a system table. Certainly, a lot of these tables are not all that
> special and could be reindexed without going to standalone mode.
>
> It might be sufficient to insist on standalone reindexing just for the
> three or four tables that have nailed-in-cache indexes. I'm not sure
> though. Hiroshi, what do you think?

Basically I changed REINDEX to work with most system tables
under postmaster in 7.1, IIRC. And there's a trial to make
it possible even for nailed-in-cache relations ... Hmm
where's my code ?

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue
http://www.geocities.jp/inocchichichi/psqlodbc/