Re: Support for REINDEX CONCURRENTLY

* Jim Nasby (jim@nasby.net) wrote:
> Yeah, I was just trying to remember what other situations this has come up in. My recollection is that there's been a
coupleother cases where that would be useful.
 

Yes, I've run into similar issues in the past also.  It'd be really neat
to somehow make the SnapshotNow (and I'm guessing the whole SysCache
system) behave more like MVCC.

> My recollection is also that such a change would be rather large... but it might be smaller than all the other
work-aroundsthat are needed because we don't have that...
 

Perhaps..  Seems like it'd be a lot of work tho, to do it 'right', and I
suspect there's a lot of skeletons out there that we'd run into..
Thanks,
    Stephen