Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> writes:
> The real solution imho is to actually clean up failed index builds when a
> build fails. That's what normal transactions do when they abort after all.
> This was always the intention but looked like it was going to be a pain and
> was put off (ie I was lazy). It's probably just several layers of
> PG_TRY/PG_CATCH and closing the failed transactions and opening new ones.
No, that wouldn't fix it if the reason the build failed was a crash.
regards, tom lane
