Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Montag, 24. Juli 2006 17:13 schrieb Tom Lane: >> I'm tempted to put the new keyword at the very front: >> >> SHARED CREATE INDEX .... >> >> which would probably mean that we'd have to document it as if it were a >> completely separate command from CREATE INDEX, but then again that might >> not be a bad thing considering how differently the two cases behave.
> What is so different about them that would justify this? Well, mainly it's exactly the reason that psql wants to know the difference: one can be executed inside a transaction block, and the other one can't. To my mind that's a sufficiently big difference that it deserves a different command name. We messed this up with CLUSTER but that's not a precedent I want to follow. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster