Re: REINDEX CONCURRENTLY 2.0

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Sergei Kornilov <sk(at)zsrv(dot)org>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: REINDEX CONCURRENTLY 2.0
Date: 2019-03-30 01:44:09
Message-ID: 20190330014409.GO1954@paquier.xyz
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 08:48:03AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> Yes, it increases the total runtime quite considerably. And it adds new
> failure modes with partially built invalid indexes hanging around that
> need to be dropped manually.

On top of that CONCURRENTLY needs multiple transactions to perform its
different phases for each transaction: build, validation, swap and
cleanup. So it cannot run in a transaction block. Having a separate
option makes the most sense.

> It does at *least* twice as much IO.

Yeah, I can guarantee you that it is much slower, at the advantage of
being lock-free.
--
Michael

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