Re: Support for REINDEX CONCURRENTLY

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Michael Paquier
> <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Please find attached the patches wanted:
> > - 20130317_dump_only_valid_index.patch, a 1-line patch that makes pg_dump
> > not take a dump of invalid indexes. This patch can be backpatched to 9.0.
>
> Don't indisready and indislive need to be checked?
>
> The patch seems to change pg_dump so that it ignores an invalid index only
> when the remote server version >= 9.0. But why not when the remote server
> version < 9.0?
>
> I think that you should start new thread to get much attention about this
> patch
> if there is no enough feedback.
>
Yeah... Will send a message about that...

>
> > Note that there have been some recent discussions about that. This
> *problem*
> > also concerned pg_upgrade.
> >
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20121207141236.GB4699@alvh.no-ip.org
>
> What's the conclusion of this discussion? pg_dump --binary-upgrade also
> should
> ignore an invalid index? pg_upgrade needs to be changed together?
>
The conclusion is that pg_dump should not need to include invalid indexes
if it is
to create them as valid index during restore. However I haven't seen any
patch...
--
Michael