Re: more than one index in a single heap pass? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: more than one index in a single heap pass?
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Msg-id 13828.1247601006@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: more than one index in a single heap pass?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> I was just wondering idly today if we could usefully build a number of  
>> indexes at the same time in a single pass over the heap, or could it be  
>> that we wouldn't gain much? I haven't even got around to thinking about  
>> any syntax for it.

> Could we make it work on two backends building one index each in
> synchronized scans?

Don't we more or less have that already?
        regards, tom lane


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