Re: Support for REINDEX CONCURRENTLY

On 2013-03-01 16:32:19 -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> REINDEX CONCURRENTLY resets the statistics in pg_stat_user_indexes,
> whereas plain REINDEX does not.  I think they should be preserved in
> either case.

Yes. Imo this further suggests that it would be better to switch the
relfilenodes (+indisclustered) of the two indexes instead of switching
the names. That would allow to get rid of the code for moving over
dependencies as well.
Given we use an exclusive lock for the switchover phase anyway, there's
not much point in going for the name-based switch. Especially as some
eventual mvcc-correct system access would be fine with the relfilenode
method.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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