| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: CLUSTER not lose indexes |
| Date: | 2002-07-05 06:28:47 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0207050216160.19948-200000@cm-lcon-46-187.cm.vtr.net |
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Tom Lane dijo:
> I think you probably want a CommandCounterIncrement at the bottom of the
> loop (after setRelhasindex). If it works as-is it's just by chance,
> ie due to internal CCI calls in index_create.
Done.
> + tuple = SearchSysCache(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(attrs->indexOID),
> + 0, 0, 0);
> + if (!HeapTupleIsValid(tuple))
> + break;
>
> Breaking out of the loop hardly seems an appropriate response to this
> failure condition. Not finding the index' pg_class entry is definitely
> an error.
Sure. elog(ERROR) now. I'm not sure what was I thinking when I wrote
that.
> I'd also suggest more-liberal commenting, as well as more attention to
> updating the existing comments to match new reality.
I'm afraid I cannot get too verbose no matter how hard I try. I hope
this one is OK.
> In general, I'm not thrilled about expending more code on the existing
> fundamentally-broken implementation of CLUSTER. We need to look at
> making use of the ability to write a new version of a table (or index)
> under a new relfilenode value, without changing the table's OID.
> However, some parts of your patch will probably still be needed when
> someone gets around to making that happen, so I won't object for now.
Will try to do this.
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