Re: [GENERAL] Concurrency problem building indexes

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 08:14:33PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> > Since this seems to only be an issue due to trying to update pg_class
> > for the table, perhaps CREATE INDEX can just ignore errors there?
> 
> Lessee, where would ignoring an error potentially cause the greatest
> damage?  I can hardly think of a less critical catalog than pg_class :-(

Sorry, should have been more specific... as I understand it, the update
is just to set pg_class.relpages for the heap, which shouldn't be
critical.

Was the code ever changed so that it won't update relpages if the number
is the same?
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