Re: Proposal to Enable/Disable Index using ALTER INDEX

On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 10:16:34AM +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> I think the primary use case here is to assist in dropping useless
> indexes in a way that can very quickly be undone if the index is more
> useful than thought. If you didn't keep the index up-to-date then that
> would make the feature useless for that purpose.
> 
> If we get the skip scan feature for PG18, then there's likely going to
> be lots of people with indexes that they might want to consider
> removing after upgrading. Maybe this is a good time to consider this
> feature as it possibly won't ever be more useful than it will be after
> we get skip scans.

+1, this is something I've wanted for some time.  There was some past
discussion, too [0].

[0] https://postgr.es/m/flat/ed8c9ed7-bb5d-aaec-065b-ad4893645deb%402ndQuadrant.com

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nathan