Re: pg_upgrade problem with invalid indexes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: pg_upgrade problem with invalid indexes
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Msg-id 50C233D4.5050200@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: pg_upgrade problem with invalid indexes  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: pg_upgrade problem with invalid indexes  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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> 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.  Why do we
> have pg_dump dump the index then?

Because pg_restore will recreate the index from scratch, which is
presumably what users want most of the time.  So this issue doesn't
exist outside of pg_upgrade.


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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
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