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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > > As for dropping/recreating all indices...that isn't really so bad,
> > > anyway...once all the data is there, th edatabase can go live...albeit
> > > *very* slow, in some cases, if I have 4 indices on a table, each one built
> > > should improve the speed of queries, but each build shouldn't limit the
> > > ability for the database to be up...
> >
> > Doesn't index creation lock the table?
>
> Lock for read...
Yep, good point. Reads are OK.
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