Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > Requiring a scan of all indexes during pg_upgrade might increase the > upgrade time prohibitively for some sites, so I don't think that's a > good solution.
Perhaps VACUUM could be taught to clean up invalid entries? That wouldn't help Andrey's unstated goal of being able to re-use the bits for some other purpose in v12, but it might be practical to re-use them sometime sooner than v17. regards, tom lane