Re: In 7.3.1, will I be able to reindex toast? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mario Weilguni
Subject Re: In 7.3.1, will I be able to reindex toast?
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Msg-id 200302160950.57788.mweilguni@sime.com
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In response to Re: In 7.3.1, will I be able to reindex toast?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: In 7.3.1, will I be able to reindex toast?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Am Samstag, 15. Februar 2003 16:49 schrieb Tom Lane:
> Mario Weilguni <mweilguni@sime.com> writes:
> > Hmm... how about pg_largeobject?
> > It seems to be treated like a system table, but I think it is not
> > necessary. Does the reindex command simply check the "pg_" prefix?
>
> As of 7.3, I believe it treats any table living in the pg_catalog schema
> as a system table.  Certainly, a lot of these tables are not all that
> special and could be reindexed without going to standalone mode.
>
> It might be sufficient to insist on standalone reindexing just for the
> three or four tables that have nailed-in-cache indexes.  I'm not sure
> though.  Hiroshi, what do you think?

And what about adding a column "indissystem" to pg_index and setting this to true for system indexes, false otherwise?
Then there would be no need to hardwire the reindex logic.

Regards,
    Mario Weilguni

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