On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 07:53:57PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Yes, I thought of not dumping it. The problem is that we don't delete
> > the index when it fails, so I assumed we didn't want to lose the index
> > creation information. I need to understand why we did that.
>
> Because CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY can't drop the index if it's already
> failed. It's not because we want to do that, it's an implementation
> restriction of the horrid kluge that is CREATE/DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY.
Well, what is the logic that pg_dump dumps it then, even in
non-binary-upgrade mode?
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