On 2012-12-07 10:44:53 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> > I wonder though if we shouldn't ignore !indislive indexes in pg_dump
> > (and the respective bw-compat hack).
Obviously I wanted to ask whether we *should* ignore them in the future.
> Quite likely we shouldn't. However, that is why it wasn't considered a
> problem.
!indislive indexes are created during DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY. Thats a
different case than CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY. Accessing their
definition is actually problematic because i can vanish while youre
examing it which could cause errors both in the backend and in pg_dump.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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