Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It was a *major* new feature that many people were waiting for when Oracle
> finally implemented live CREATE INDEX and REINDEX. The ability to run create
> an index without blocking any operations on a table, even updates, was
> absolutely critical for 24x7 operation.
Well, we're still not in *that* ballpark and I haven't seen any serious
proposals to make us so. How "absolutely critical" is it really?
Is REINDEX-in-parallel-with-reads-but-not-writes, which is what we
actually have at the moment, an "absolutely critical" facility?
regards, tom lane
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