>>>>> "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.
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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)