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

From Hiroshi Inoue
Subject Re: In 7.3.1, will I be able to reindex toast?
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In response to Re: In 7.3.1, will I be able to reindex toast?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> 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?

Basically I changed REINDEX to work with most system tables
under postmaster in 7.1, IIRC. And there's a trial to make
it possible even for nailed-in-cache relations ... Hmm
where's my code ?

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue
    http://www.geocities.jp/inocchichichi/psqlodbc/

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