Reindex toast before its main relation in reindex_relation()
This commit changes the order of reindex on a relation so as a toast
relation is processed before its main relation.
The original order, where a rebuild was first done for the indexes on
the main table, could be a problem in the event of a corruption of a
toast index, because, as scans of a toast index may be required to
rebuild the indexes on the main relation, this could lead to failures
with REINDEX TABLE without being able to fix anything.
Rebuilding corrupted toast indexes before this change was possible but
troublesome, as it was necessary to issue a REINDEX on the toast
relation first, followed by a REINDEX on the main relation. Changing
the order of these operations should make things easier when rebuilding
corrupted indexes, as toast indexes would be rebuilt before they are
used for the indexes on the main relation.
Per request from Richard Vesely.
Author: Gurjeet Singh
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18016-2bd9b549b1fe49b3@postgresql.org
Branch
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master
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f2bf8fb04886e3ea82e7f7f86696ac78e06b7e60
Modified Files
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src/backend/catalog/index.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)