> What I'm thinking about right now is tweaking the index-build code to
> write to WAL only if it sees that PITR is actually in use. It would
> have to look at the GUC variables to determine whether WAL archiving
> is enabled. If archiving isn't turned on, then we could assume that
> rollforward from a past backup isn't needed in this installation, and
> use the WAL-less index build method.
Seems reasonable.
Chris