On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 6:26 PM, David Rowley <david.row...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Or would it be insanely weird to just not allow setting or unsetting > this invisible flag if indcheckxmin is true? I can't imagine there > will be many people adding an index and not wanting to use it while > it's still being created. I think the use case here is mostly people > wanting to test dropping indexes before they go and remove that 1TB > index that will take days to build again if they're wrong.
I'm surprised that that use case wasn't the first one that everyone thought of. I actually assumed that that's what Andrew had in mind when reading his original message. I only realized later that it wasn't. -- Peter Geoghegan