Re: more than one index in a single heap pass?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: more than one index in a single heap pass?
Date: 2009-07-14 19:36:14
Message-ID: 20090714193614.GN4799@alvh.no-ip.org
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> I was just wondering idly today if we could usefully build a number of
> indexes at the same time in a single pass over the heap, or could it be
> that we wouldn't gain much? I haven't even got around to thinking about
> any syntax for it.

Could we make it work on two backends building one index each in
synchronized scans?

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