Re: Async commands (like drop index) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:30:45PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> It seems that it may be useful to allow something like:
> 
> DROP INDEX NOWAIT.
> 
> The idea being, that the terminal will come back, the index will be 
> dropped in the background. If it doesn't drop, it rollback like normal 
> and logs.
> 
> I bring this up now, as an idea. We can argue about it later... :)

Assuming the concurrent psql stuff gets in, do you still see a use for
this?
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