On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 8:44 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 2:18 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > Yeah, I got the impression that that was determined to be the desirable
> > behavior, so I made it do that, but I'm not really happy about it
> > either. We're not too late to change the CREATE INDEX behavior, but
> > let's discuss what is it that we want.
>
> I don't think I intended to make any such determination -- which
> commit do you think established this as the canonical behavior?
>
> I propose that once a field is set, we should leave it set until the end.
+1
Note that this patch is already behaving like that if the table only
contains dead rows.
