Re: I don't want to back up index files

From: Jeremy Harris <jgh(at)wizmail(dot)org>
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Subject: Re: I don't want to back up index files
Date: 2009-03-13 20:14:17
Message-ID: 49BABE99.3060508@wizmail.org
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> The idea of auto rebuilding indexes following recovery has already been
> proposed, so is under consideration. It hasn't been proposed in relation
> to the use case you mention, so that is new.
>
> If we did as you suggest then it would speed up the base backup but
> would also add index rebuild time onto the end of any recovery.

Forgive me for being stupid, but isn't a time when all the data for
a table is being streamed in, during restore, the *perfect* time
to build an index? Why wait until after the restore?

Cheers,
Jeremy

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