Re: Async commands (like drop index)

"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Yes. As cool as concurrent psql is... the majority of our users don't 
> use it. They use PgAdminIII.

So?  IIRC pgAdmin can open up multiple connections already.

> This should be client agnostic imo.

Just to be perfectly clear: the odds of making a single backend support
concurrent operations in the foreseeable future are indistinguishable
from zero.  So if you want a behavior like this, it's going to have to
happen by making the client open up multiple connections.  I see no
reason at all to tie such a feature to index-dropping in particular.
        regards, tom lane