Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 13:40 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> No, that seems utterly unsafe to me. We'd have a corrupt index and >> nothing to cause it to get repaired.
> We do exactly this with GIN and GIST indexes currently. Which are not used in any system indexes. > I'd rather have a database that works, but has a corrupt index than one > that won't come up at all. If the btree in question is a critical system index, your value of "work" is going to be pretty damn small. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs