Re: Revisiting {CREATE INDEX, REINDEX} CONCURRENTLY improvements

Mihail Nikalayeu <mihailnikalayeu@gmail.com>

From: Mihail Nikalayeu <mihailnikalayeu@gmail.com>

To: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>

Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Hannu Krosing <hannuk@google.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>, Sergey Sargsyan <sergey.sargsyan.2001@gmail.com>, alvherre@kurilemu.de, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Andrey Borodin <amborodin86@gmail.com>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>

Date: 2026-01-12T14:12:00Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Attachments

v28-0007-Refresh-snapshot-periodically-during-index-valid.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v28-0007
v28-0005-Track-and-drop-auxiliary-indexes-in-DROP-REINDEX.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v28-0005
v28-0003-Add-Datum-storage-support-to-tuplestore.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v28-0003
v28-0006-Optimize-auxiliary-index-handling.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v28-0006
v28-0004-Use-auxiliary-indexes-for-concurrent-index-opera.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v28-0004
v28-0001-Add-stress-tests-for-concurrent-index-builds.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v28-0001
v28-0002-Add-STIR-access-method-and-flags-related-to-auxi.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v28-0002

This is a rebased version + some fixes + some comment/typos.

Best regards,
Mikhail.

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Revert changes to CONCURRENTLY that "sped up" Xmin advance
- e28bb8851969 15.0 cited
VACUUM: ignore indexing operations with CONCURRENTLY
- d9d076222f5b 14.0 cited
Avoid spurious waits in concurrent indexing
- c98763bf51bf 14.0 cited