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| author | Alvaro Herrera | 2020-11-30 21:24:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Alvaro Herrera | 2020-11-30 21:24:55 +0000 |
| commit | 58ebe967f8a1e34a824d6a0a35728027272041c6 (patch) | |
| tree | 865410fc5aed0ebfeb0bfff190a1b57b833e4a0a | |
| parent | 4823c4f6ac770ebd49b63b0ce64ecfe82987af57 (diff) | |
Document concurrent indexes waiting on each other
Because regular CREATE INDEX commands are independent, and there's no
logical data dependency, it's not immediately obvious that transactions
held by concurrent index builds on one table will block the second phase
of concurrent index creation on an unrelated table, so document this
caveat.
Backpatch this all the way back. In branch master, mention that only
some indexes are involved.
Author: James Coleman <jtc331@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe994=PUrn8CJZ4UEo_S-FfRr_3ogERyhtdgHAb2WG_Ufg@mail.gmail.com
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml index 29dee5689e8..2054d5d9436 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml @@ -604,7 +604,10 @@ CREATE [ UNIQUE ] INDEX [ CONCURRENTLY ] [ [ IF NOT EXISTS ] <replaceable class= wait for existing transactions that have modified the table to terminate. After the second scan, the index build must wait for any transactions that have a snapshot (see <xref linkend="mvcc"/>) predating the second - scan to terminate. Then finally the index can be marked ready for use, + scan to terminate, including transactions used by any phase of concurrent + index builds on other tables, if the indexes involved are partial or have + columns that are not simple column references. + Then finally the index can be marked ready for use, and the <command>CREATE INDEX</command> command terminates. Even then, however, the index may not be immediately usable for queries: in the worst case, it cannot be used as long as transactions exist that |