Re: Creating indexes in the background

On 28 October 2012 01:20, David Lee <davidomundo@gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems like right now when you want to create an index concurrently, the index creation will get canceled if you
cancelthe statement (i.e. you must keep your statement open).
 
>
> Is there a way to "launch" an index creation in the background so that the statement doesn't need to be kept open?

There is some work in 9.3 that will give low-level infrastructure
support to allow the concept of a "job/task scheduler" in Postgres,
which is the generic description of the facility you're looking for.
It is early days, but that will emerge sometime in 9.3 or beyond.

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