Re: [DOC] Document concurrent index builds waiting on each other

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: James Coleman <jtc331@gmail.com>, David Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: 2021-01-13T05:58:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 04:51:39PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I looked into this again, and I didn't like what I had added to
> maintenance.sgml at all.  It seems out of place where I put it; and I
> couldn't find any great spots.  Going back to your original proposal,
> what about something like this?  It's just one more para in the "notes"
> section in CREATE INDEX and REINDEX pages, without any additions to the
> VACUUM pages.

+1.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Call out vacuum considerations in create index docs

  2. Document concurrent indexes waiting on each other

  3. snapshot scalability: Don't compute global horizons while building snapshots.

  4. Remove PROC_IN_ANALYZE and derived flags

  5. Improve performance of get_actual_variable_range with recently-dead tuples.