A minor issue, and patch.
REINDEX DATABASE currently requires you to write REINDEX DATABASE
dbname, which makes this a little less usable than we might like.
REINDEX on the catalog can cause deadlocks, which also makes REINDEX
DATABASE not much use in practice, and is the reason there is no test
for REINDEX DATABASE. Another reason why it is a little less usable
than we might like.
Seems we should do something about these historic issues in the name
of product usability.
Attached patch allows new syntax for REINDEX DATABASE, without needing
to specify dbname. That version of the command skips catalog tables,
as a way of avoiding the known deadlocks. Patch also adds a test.
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Simon Riggs http://www.EnterpriseDB.com/