On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 11:46 AM Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > I don't have a need for it --- I was just wondering why we have > something that checks the relation contents, but not the file existence?
We do this for B-tree indexes within amcheck. They must always have storage, if only to store the index metapage. (Actually unlogged indexes that run on a standby don't, but that's accounted for directly.) -- Peter Geoghegan