Re: monitoring CREATE INDEX [CONCURRENTLY]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 3:43 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > Huh.  Well, that's another option, but then what do we do if the
> > number of phases is not a constant?
>
> Well, why do we care?  "Some phases might be skipped".

It seems pretty confusing.  I mean, in the case of the CLUSTER patch,
you're either going to seq-scan the table or index-scan the table.
Those are (at last check) reported using different phase numbers, but
they are mutually exclusive.  Generally, if you are going to do either
foo -> bar -> baz -> quux or foo -> bletch -> quux, how many phases
are there total?  5?  4?

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