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Avoid changing an index's indcheckxmin horizon during REINDEX.

There can never be a need to push the indcheckxmin horizon forward, since
any HOT chains that are actually broken with respect to the index must
pre-date its original creation.  So we can just avoid changing pg_index
altogether during a REINDEX operation.

This offers a cleaner solution than my previous patch for the problem
found a few days ago that we mustn't try to update pg_index while we are
reindexing it.  System catalog indexes will always be created with
indcheckxmin = false during initdb, and with this modified code we should
never try to change their pg_index entries.  This avoids special-casing
system catalogs as the former patch did, and should provide a performance
benefit for many cases where REINDEX formerly caused an index to be
considered unusable for a short time.

Back-patch to 8.3 to cover all versions containing HOT.  Note that this
patch changes the API for index_build(), but I believe it is unlikely that
any add-on code is calling that directly.
This commit is contained in:
Tom Lane
2011-04-19 18:50:56 -04:00
parent c096d19b74
commit 8c19977e9c
6 changed files with 41 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -1398,6 +1398,12 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
* advantage to the other order anyway because this is all transactional,
* so no chance to reclaim disk space before commit. We do not need a
* final CommandCounterIncrement() because reindex_relation does it.
*
* Note: because index_build is called via reindex_relation, it will never
* set indcheckxmin true for the indexes. This is OK even though in some
* sense we are building new indexes rather than rebuilding existing ones,
* because the new heap won't contain any HOT chains at all, let alone
* broken ones, so it can't be necessary to set indcheckxmin.
*/
reindex_flags = REINDEX_REL_SUPPRESS_INDEX_USE;
if (check_constraints)