Re: Importance of re-index - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Importance of re-index
Date
Msg-id 1154703657.7882.96.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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In response to Re: Importance of re-index  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 18:03, Tom Lane wrote:
> Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com> writes:
> > Reindex was originally
> > designed to fix broken indexes, and, at least in earlier encarnations,
> > should something stop it in the middle of reindexing I believe it is
> > possible to be left with no index.
>
> That was once true but these days reindex is perfectly crash-safe.  The
> only case where it's not is where you want to reindex a shared catalog's
> index (eg one of pg_database's), and we don't let you do that in
> multiuser mode anyway.

Oh cool! nice to know that's since been fixed.

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