Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> What's worse, once you have excluded writes you have to rescan the entire
> table to be sure you haven't missed anything. So in the scenarios where this
> whole thing is actually interesting, ie enormous tables, you're still
> talking about a fairly long interval with writes locked out. Maybe not as
> long as a complete REINDEX, but long.

I was thinking you would set a flag to disable use of the FSM for
inserts/updates while the reindex was running. So you would know where to find
the new tuples, at the end of the table after the last tuple you read.

-- 
greg


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