Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX CONCURRENTLY 2.0

On March 4, 2017 1:16:56 AM PST, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>Maybe.  But it looks to me like this patch is going to have
>considerably more than its share of user-visible warts, and I'm not
>very excited about that.  I feel like what we ought to be doing is
>keeping the index OID the same and changing the relfilenode to point
>to a newly-created one, and I attribute our failure to make that
>design work thus far to insufficiently aggressive hacking.

We literally spent years and a lot of emails waiting for that to happen. Users now hack up solutions like this in
userspace,obviously a bad solution. 

I agree that'd it be nicer not to have this, but not having the feature at all is a lot worse than this wart.

Andres
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