Re: Press Release Draft - 2016-02-09 Cumulative Update

Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> 
> > On Feb 7, 2017, at 4:07 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> > 
> >> Thanks for the clarification.  I have updated the recipe along with Emre’s comments here:
> >> 
> >> [updated text not included in the email]
> > 
> > I still don't think the recipe is a very good one because it leaves you
> > with a window where the affected columns are not indexed at all.
> 
> Okay, so I propose two options:
> 
> 	1.  Does anyone have a recipe they recommend that might be better? OR

Do the CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY first, then DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY the
old index, then rename the new index to the old name.

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