>> Long ago.  I just tested it again, and AFAICS you can create indexes
>> concurrently so long as the underlying table isn't changing (ie,
>> neither reltuples nor relpages changes).
> 
> Hrm, the OP seemed to find a case that was having problems:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-04/msg01009.php
> 
> Of course it's possible that he's getting that error from an entirely
> different section of code, or that this is now only an issue if you're
> doing a lot of indexing at once...

I just verified using 'ps' that there are no other open connections when the
index builds are running.  I tried somewhat bigger test tables (a few rows
to a little over a hundred thousand).  I can duplicate the error at will.

Wes



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