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

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