pgsql: Make index_set_state_flags() transactional

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Make index_set_state_flags() transactional
Date: 2020-09-14 04:58:38
Message-ID: E1kHgZa-0000hh-Rt@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Make index_set_state_flags() transactional

3c84046 is the original commit that introduced index_set_state_flags(),
where the presence of SnapshotNow made necessary the use of an in-place
update. SnapshotNow has been removed in 813fb03, so there is no actual
reasons to not make this operation transactional.

Note that while making the operation more robust, using a transactional
operation in this routine was not strictly necessary as there was no use
case for it yet. However, some future features are going to need a
transactional behavior, like support for CREATE/DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY
with partitioned tables, where indexes in a partition tree need to have
all their pg_index.indis* flags updated in the same transaction to make
the operation stable to the end-user by keeping partition trees
consistent, even with a failure mid-flight.

REINDEX CONCURRENTLY uses already transactional updates when swapping
the old and new indexes, making this change more consistent with the
index-swapping logic.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Anastasia Lubennikova
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200903080440.GA8559@paquier.xyz

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/83158f74d3ab8dd48aed92e84b6207562992d13d

Modified Files
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src/backend/catalog/index.c | 19 ++++---------------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

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