On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 09:30:23AM -0500, Shaun Thomas wrote:
> On 18 Jun 2002, Jason Earl wrote:
> My script doesn't really lock anything, it must just be a natural
> side-effect of the REINDEX command,
According to
<http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.2/postgres/locking-tables.html>
CREATE INDEX gets a ShareLock. Which will block UPDATE, DELETE and
INSERT. So, not _quite_ as bad as VACUUM FULL, but not something to
do in the middle of a busy day.
A
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