Re: [HACKERS] Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump.

2013-03-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 09:43:54PM +, Tom Lane wrote: Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump. Dumping invalid indexes can cause problems at restore time, for example if the reason the index creation failed was because it tried to enforce a uniqueness condition not satisfied by the table's

Re: [HACKERS] Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump.

2013-03-28 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us writes: Should I just patch pg_upgrade to remove the indisvalid, skip indisvalid indexes, and backpatch it? Users should be using the version of pg_upgrade to match new pg_dump. Is there any case where they don't match? Do I still need to check for indisready?

Re: [HACKERS] Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump.

2013-03-28 Thread anara...@anarazel.de
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us schrieb: Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us writes: Should I just patch pg_upgrade to remove the indisvalid, skip indisvalid indexes, and backpatch it? Users should be using the version of pg_upgrade to match new pg_dump. Is there any case where they don't match?

Re: [HACKERS] Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump.

2013-03-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:31:51PM +0100, anara...@anarazel.de wrote: Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us schrieb: Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us writes: Should I just patch pg_upgrade to remove the indisvalid, skip indisvalid indexes, and backpatch it? Users should be using the version of

Re: [HACKERS] Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump.

2013-03-28 Thread Tom Lane
anara...@anarazel.de and...@anarazel.de writes: Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us schrieb: Yeah, if you can just ignore !indisvalid indexes that should work fine. I see no need to look at indisready if you're doing that. You need to look at inisready in 9.2 since thats used for about to be dropped

Re: [HACKERS] Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump.

2013-03-28 Thread anara...@anarazel.de
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us schrieb: anara...@anarazel.de and...@anarazel.de writes: Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us schrieb: Yeah, if you can just ignore !indisvalid indexes that should work fine. I see no need to look at indisready if you're doing that. You need to look at inisready in 9.2

Re: [HACKERS] Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump.

2013-03-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:47:55PM +0100, anara...@anarazel.de wrote: Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us schrieb: anara...@anarazel.de and...@anarazel.de writes: Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us schrieb: Yeah, if you can just ignore !indisvalid indexes that should work fine. I see no need to look

Re: [HACKERS] Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump.

2013-03-28 Thread Andres Freund
On 2013-03-28 17:54:08 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:47:55PM +0100, anara...@anarazel.de wrote: Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us schrieb: anara...@anarazel.de and...@anarazel.de writes: Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us schrieb: Yeah, if you can just ignore

Re: [HACKERS] Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump.

2013-03-28 Thread Tom Lane
anara...@anarazel.de and...@anarazel.de writes: 9.2 represents inisdead as live !ready, doesn't it? So just looking at indislive will include about to be dropped or partially dropped indexes? Ooooh ... you're right, in 9.2 (only) we need to check both indisvalid and indisready (cf

Re: [HACKERS] Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump.

2013-03-28 Thread Andres Freund
On 2013-03-28 17:35:08 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:31:51PM +0100, anara...@anarazel.de wrote: Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us schrieb: Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us writes: Should I just patch pg_upgrade to remove the indisvalid, skip indisvalid indexes,

Re: [HACKERS] Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump

2013-03-26 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Paquier michael.paqu...@gmail.com writes: On top of checking indisvalid, I think that some additional checks on indislive and indisready are also necessary. Those are not necessary, as an index that is marked indisvalid should certainly also have those flags set. If it didn't require

Re: [HACKERS] Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump

2013-03-26 Thread Michael Paquier
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Michael Paquier michael.paqu...@gmail.com writes: On top of checking indisvalid, I think that some additional checks on indislive and indisready are also necessary. Those are not necessary, as an index that is marked

Re: [HACKERS] Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump

2013-03-20 Thread Simon Riggs
On 20 March 2013 02:51, Michael Paquier michael.paqu...@gmail.com wrote: If failures happen with CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY, the system will be let with invalid indexes. I don't think that the user would like to see invalid indexes of an existing system being recreated as valid after a

Re: [HACKERS] Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump

2013-03-20 Thread Josh Kupershmidt
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Simon Riggs si...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: On 20 March 2013 02:51, Michael Paquier michael.paqu...@gmail.com wrote: If failures happen with CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY, the system will be let with invalid indexes. I don't think that the user would like to see

Re: [HACKERS] Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump

2013-03-20 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Kupershmidt schmi...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Simon Riggs si...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: Invalid also means currently-in-progress, so it would be better to keep them in. For invalid indexes which are left hanging around in the database, if the index definition

Re: [HACKERS] Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump

2013-03-20 Thread Michael Paquier
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: I had been on the fence about what to do here, but I find Josh's arguments persuasive, particularly the second one. Why shouldn't we consider an in-progress index to be an uncommitted DDL change? (Now admittedly, there