Pavan Deolasee wrote: > > Earlier we were talking about not inserting any HOT tuples until the index > > became valid. The goal of having an xid on the index was so we would know > > when > > we could start doing HOT updates again. That seems like a much lesser cost > > than not being able to use the index until all live transactions exit. > > > What I am proposing is to keep index unusable for existing transactions. > The index is available for all new transactions even if there are unfinished > existing transactions. Is that a big problem ? Well, I still need buy-in and > review from Tom and others on the design, but it seems workable to me.
Yes, that seems totally acceptable to me. As I remember, the index is usable by the transaction that created it, and new transactions. Hard to see how someone would have a problem with that. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend