Re: [pgadmin-hackers] ALTER INDEX set fillfactor

2007-10-06 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 17:45 +0100, Dave Page wrote: > CIC can't be run in a transaction block, so how do we queue up the > drop & rename to run after it completes? > Given the changes to VACUUM & CREATE DATABASE/TABLESPACE in 8.3 I > would imagine it won't run in a multi-statement query either n

Re: [pgadmin-hackers] ALTER INDEX set fillfactor

2007-10-06 Thread Dave Page
> --- Original Message --- > From: Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: 06/10/07, 08:33:30 > Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] ALTER INDEX set fillfactor > > On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 21:24 +0100, Dave Page wrote: > &g

Re: [pgadmin-hackers] ALTER INDEX set fillfactor

2007-10-06 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 21:24 +0100, Dave Page wrote: > Simon Riggs wrote: > > It would be even better if there was an option to do that CONCURRENTLY, > > i.e. add the new index and then drop the old one afterwards. (It's > > unfortunate that there isn't a REINDEX concurrently, but there isn't > > y

Re: [pgadmin-hackers] ALTER INDEX set fillfactor

2007-10-05 Thread Dave Page
Simon Riggs wrote: > pgadmin sneaks a REINDEX into the SQL when you specify a change to the > fillfactor of an index. > > That's not very handy because the Postgres manual says specifically that > ALTER INDEX doesn't issue a REINDEX. It's a perfectly valid thing to run > on its own, since it will

[pgadmin-hackers] ALTER INDEX set fillfactor

2007-10-04 Thread Simon Riggs
pgadmin sneaks a REINDEX into the SQL when you specify a change to the fillfactor of an index. That's not very handy because the Postgres manual says specifically that ALTER INDEX doesn't issue a REINDEX. It's a perfectly valid thing to run on its own, since it will affect the future growth of th