Re: pg_upgrade problem with invalid indexes

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-12-07T18:59:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> On Fri, Dec  7, 2012 at 07:49:14PM +0100, Andres Freund wrote:
>> !indislive indexes are created during DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY. Thats a
>> different case than CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY. Accessing their
>> definition is actually problematic because i can vanish while youre
>> examing it which could cause errors both in the backend and in pg_dump.

> Is that something pg_upgrade need to worry about too?  Is
> pg_index.indisvalid the only thing pg_upgrade need to check?

indisvalid should be sufficient.  If you try to test more than that
you're going to make the code more version-specific, without actually
buying much.

			regards, tom lane