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Re: "Routine Reindexing" docs should be updated to reference REINDEX CONCURRENTLY

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
Date: 2019-04-26T03:05:37Z
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 01:34:41PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> The documentation has a section called "Routine Reindexing", which
> explains how to simulate REINDEX CONCURRENTLY with a sequence of
> creation and replacement steps. This should be updated to reference
> the REINDEX CONCURRENTLY command.

Agreed, good catch.  I would suggest to remove most of the section and
just replace it with a reference to REINDEX CONCURRENTLY, as per the
attached.  What do you think?
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Mention REINDEX CONCURRENTLY in documentation about index maintenance