Re: Should I implement DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY?

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On mån, 2012-01-16 at 11:17 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> I don't see how setting indisvalid to false helps with this, because
>> IIUC when a session sees indisvalid = false, it is supposed to avoid
>> using the index for queries but still make new index entries when a
>> write operation happens - but to drop an index, I think you'd need to
>> get into a state where no one was using the index for anything at all.
>
> ISTM that one would need to set indisready to false instead.

Maybe we should set both to false?

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