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Alvaro Herrera authored
In the various waiting phases of CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY (CIC) and REINDEX CONCURRENTLY (RC), we wait for other processes to release their snapshots; this is necessary in general for correctness. However, processes doing CIC in other tables cannot possibly affect CIC or RC done in "this" table, so we don't need to wait for those. This commit adds a flag in MyProc->statusFlags to indicate that the current process is doing CIC, so that other processes doing CIC or RC can ignore it when waiting. Note that this logic is only valid if the index does not access other tables. For simplicity we avoid setting the flag if the index has a column that's an expression, or has a WHERE predicate. (It is possible to have expressional or partial indexes that do not access other tables, but figuring that out would require more work.) This flag can potentially also be used by processes doing REINDEX CONCURRENTLY to be skipped; and by VACUUM to ignore processes in CIC or RC for the purposes of computing an Xmin. That's left for future commits. Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Author: Dimitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200810233815.GA18970@alvherre.pgsql
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