On 11 January 2018 at 04:37, Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> wrote: > In prior incarnations of the patch, I had an if-test to prevent > attaching invalid indexes, but I decided to remove it at some point -- > mainly thinking of attaching a partition for which a CREATE INDEX > CONCURRENTLY was running which already had the index as invalid and was > later expected to become valid. I suppose that doesn't really work > anyway because of locking considerations (you can't attach a partition > in which CIC is concurrently running, can you). I'll think some more > about this case and post an updated version later.
I guess CIC will need to check if the index has a parent index when setting indisvalid = true, and do likewise to the parent index if all other siblings are valid. -- David Rowley http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
