Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX CONCURRENTLY 2.0

>>>>> "Alvaro" == Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:

 Alvaro> After looking at the proposed grammar again today and in danger
 Alvaro> of repeating myself, IMO allowing the concurrency keyword to
 Alvaro> appear outside the parens would be a mistake. Valid commands:

 Alvaro>   REINDEX (VERBOSE, CONCURRENTLY) TABLE foo;
 Alvaro>   REINDEX (CONCURRENTLY) INDEX bar;

We burned that bridge with CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY; to make REINDEX
require different syntax would be too inconsistent.

If we didn't have all these existing uses of CONCURRENTLY without
parens, your argument might have more merit; but we do.

-- 
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)