Re: CREATE INDEX and HOT - revised design

On 3/21/07, Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems much simpler to me do something like this. But important
> question is whether the restriction that CREATE INDEX can not
> be run in a transaction block is acceptable ?

yikes -- this is huge, huge price to pay, IMHO.  Think about DDL that
implies index creation such as adding unique constraint to a table,
many postgresql users (including me) take advantage of that in update
systems to production databases.

merlin