Re: Let's drop two obsolete features which are bear-traps for novices

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> The real question here is whether the table should continue to be usable 
> in a degraded state until it's reindexed.

It certainly will be, as long as your notion of "usable in a degraded
state" doesn't include issuing queries that would prefer to use the broken
index.  The discussion is about what exactly should happen if you do that.
        regards, tom lane