On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote: > We have two options for marking valid: > > 1. after each ALTER INDEX ATTACH, verify whether the set of partitions > that contain the index is complete; if so, mark it valid, otherwise do > nothing. This sucks because we have to check that over and over for > every index that we attach > > 2. We invent yet another command, say > ALTER INDEX <idx-on-parent> VALIDATE
If ALTER INDEX .. ATTACH is already taking AEL on the parent, then I think it might as well try to validate while it's at it. But if not then we might want to go with #2. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company