Prevent reindex of invalid indexes on TOAST tables
Such indexes can only be duplicated leftovers of a previously failed
REINDEX CONCURRENTLY command, and a valid equivalent is guaranteed to
exist. As toast indexes can only be dropped if invalid, reindexing
these would lead to useless duplicated indexes that can't be dropped
anymore, except if the parent relation is dropped.
Thanks to Justin Pryzby for reminding that this problem was reported
long ago during the review of the original patch of REINDEX
CONCURRENTLY, but the issue was never addressed.
Reported-by: Sergei Kornilov, Justin Pryzby
Author: Julien Rouhaud
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/36712441546604286%40sas1-890ba5c2334a.qloud-c.yandex.net
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200216190835.GA21832@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 12
Branch
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REL_12_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8bca5f93547c77f3beb5ac679d6471504fc09a43
Modified Files
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src/backend/catalog/index.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c | 10 ++++++++++
src/backend/utils/cache/lsyscache.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
src/include/utils/lsyscache.h | 1 +
4 files changed, 62 insertions(+)