Re: Tricky bugs in concurrent index build

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Tricky bugs in concurrent index build
Date: 2006-08-25 15:06:50
Message-ID: 87y7tcua5x.fsf@enterprisedb.com
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:

> The original thinking was to use CONCURRENT, and CREATE CONCURRENT INDEX
> sounded like a different type of index, not a different way to build the
> index. I don't think CONCURRENTLY has that problem, so CREATE
> CONCURRENTLY INDEX sounds good. To read in English, it would be read as
> CREATE CONCURRENTLY, INDEX ii.

That doesn't sound like English at all to me.

Fwiw, I think the best option was what Tom did. The gotcha I tripped on seems
pretty minor to me.

--
Gregory Stark
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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