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Re: BUG #17268: Possible corruption in toast index after reindex index concurrently

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Alexey Ermakov <alexey.ermakov@dataegret.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Maxim Boguk <maxim.boguk@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Date: 2021-11-09T06:31:19Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs 
Hi,

On 2021-11-08 21:46:25 -0800, Noah Misch wrote:
> Doing both sounds harmless.  Regarding REINDEX CONCURRENTLY on a system
> catalog, I bet that can still reach bugs even if we do both, considering this:

Normal catalog aren't REINDEX CONCURRENTLY. It's just toast tables that are
kind of system-y, but also kind of not, that can be reindexed concurrently. Or
at least I think it's just toast indexes?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. Fix corruption of toast indexes with REINDEX CONCURRENTLY