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