Re: deadlock while re-indexing table - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: deadlock while re-indexing table
Date
Msg-id 20080212154502.GM14683@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: deadlock while re-indexing table  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: deadlock while re-indexing table
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:

> > I don't find this very surprising ... I would suggest using "reindex
> > index" for each index instead.  I'm not sure if REINDEX TABLE is
> > supposed to be deadlock-free.
>
> It's not guaranteed to be so, but I'd think simple cases would be
> okay.

Can we rework REINDEX TABLE so that it processes each index on its own
transaction?

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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