On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 08:42:41PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> > Was the code ever changed so that it won't update relpages if the number
> > is the same?
>
> Long ago. I just tested it again, and AFAICS you can create indexes
> concurrently so long as the underlying table isn't changing (ie,
> neither reltuples nor relpages changes).
Hrm, the OP seemed to find a case that was having problems:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-04/msg01009.php
Of course it's possible that he's getting that error from an entirely
different section of code, or that this is now only an issue if you're
doing a lot of indexing at once...
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