Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes: > On 2019-04-12 09:51:51 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Tiffany Thang <tiffanythang@gmail.com> writes: >>> Can someone explain the use of creating multiple indexes on the same >>> column?
>> There is none, unless the indexes have different properties (e.g. >> different opclasses and/or index AMs).
> Well, it can be beneficial to create a new index concurrently, and then > drop the old one concurrently.
Right, but in that situation there's no intent to keep both indexes in place. You're just putting up with extra overhead temporarily as a means to avoid taking an exclusive lock.