Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD wrote:
>
> > > What bothers me about what we have now is that we have optional
> > > keywords before and after INDEX, rather than only between
> > CREATE and INDEX.
> >
> > Yeah, putting them both into that space seems consistent to
> > me, and it will fix the problem of making an omitted index
> > name look like a valid command.
> >
> > I'm not sure I should be opening this can of worms, but do we
> > want to use a different keyword than CONCURRENTLY to make it
> > read better there?
>
> precedent syntax (Oracle, Informix) uses the keyword ONLINE at the end:
> CREATE INDEX blabla_x0 ON blabla (a,b) ONLINE;
That was what the patch originally used, but it was changed because it
made difficult for psql to auto-complete that.
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