Re: Support for REINDEX CONCURRENTLY

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Andres Freund escribió:
>> I somewhat dislike the fact that CONCURRENTLY isn't really concurrent
>> here (for the listeners: swapping the indexes acquires exlusive locks) ,
>> but I don't see any other naming being better.
>
> REINDEX ALMOST CONCURRENTLY?

I'm kind of unconvinced of the value proposition of this patch.  I
mean, you can DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY and CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY
today, so ... how is this better?

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