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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2011-04-19 18:51:03 -0400 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2011-04-19 18:51:03 -0400 |
| commit | ebcbc8cfe6c2d9c587ae2a25e545f09b58b666b0 (patch) | |
| tree | d203193d19a674f9dcbba0a8a5848e6ff31d9d0f /src/backend/bootstrap | |
| parent | 1da9966230a30405ea5981403d4f4a9d83cb1ecb (diff) | |
Avoid changing an index's indcheckxmin horizon during REINDEX.
There can never be a need to push the indcheckxmin horizon forward, since
any HOT chains that are actually broken with respect to the index must
pre-date its original creation. So we can just avoid changing pg_index
altogether during a REINDEX operation.
This offers a cleaner solution than my previous patch for the problem
found a few days ago that we mustn't try to update pg_index while we are
reindexing it. System catalog indexes will always be created with
indcheckxmin = false during initdb, and with this modified code we should
never try to change their pg_index entries. This avoids special-casing
system catalogs as the former patch did, and should provide a performance
benefit for many cases where REINDEX formerly caused an index to be
considered unusable for a short time.
Back-patch to 8.3 to cover all versions containing HOT. Note that this
patch changes the API for index_build(), but I believe it is unlikely that
any add-on code is calling that directly.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/bootstrap')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c b/src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c index 080d80e296b..d6dce8f4f20 100644 --- a/src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c +++ b/src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c @@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ build_indices(void) heap = heap_open(ILHead->il_heap, NoLock); ind = index_open(ILHead->il_ind, NoLock); - index_build(heap, ind, ILHead->il_info, false); + index_build(heap, ind, ILHead->il_info, false, false); index_close(ind, NoLock); heap_close(heap, NoLock); |