Re: REINDEX during a transaction

Ashley Moran <ashley.moran@codeweavers.net> writes:
> BEGIN WORK;
> DELETE FROM X; COPY X ...; REINDEX TABLE X;
> DELETE FROM Y; COPY Y ...; REINDEX TABLE Y;
> DELETE FROM Z; COPY Z ...; REINDEX TABLE Z;
> COMMIT;

Why don't you use TRUNCATE?  Why do you think you need REINDEX at all?

If you do need it, you'd be best off to drop the indexes, truncate,
copy, re-create the indexes.  See
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/populate.html#POPULATE-RM-INDEXES

            regards, tom lane