On 2019-07-08 21:08, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, I do agree that implementing filtering in the
> backend is a better design. What's bothering me is that I also agree
> that there will be more glibc breakage, and if that happens within a
> few years, a lot of people will still be using pg12- version, and they
> still won't have an efficient way to rebuild their indexes. Now, it'd
> be easy to publish an external tools that does a simple
> parallel-and-glic-filtering reindex tool that will serve that purpose
> for the few years it'll be needed, so everyone can be happy.
You can already do that: Run a query through psql to get a list of
affected tables or indexes and feed those to reindexdb using -i or -t
options.
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