Re: Pluggable Indexes

Ron Mayer wrote:
> Early (2005)
> GIST indexes were very painful in production environments because vacuuming
> them held locks for a *long* time (IIRC, an hour or so on my database) on
> the indexes locking out queries.  Was that just a shortcoming of the
> implementation, or was it a side-effect of them not supporting recoverability.

The former.

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