Re: Importance of re-index

On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 18:03, Tom Lane wrote:
> Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com> writes:
> > Reindex was originally
> > designed to fix broken indexes, and, at least in earlier encarnations,
> > should something stop it in the middle of reindexing I believe it is
> > possible to be left with no index.
>
> That was once true but these days reindex is perfectly crash-safe.  The
> only case where it's not is where you want to reindex a shared catalog's
> index (eg one of pg_database's), and we don't let you do that in
> multiuser mode anyway.

Oh cool! nice to know that's since been fixed.