On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 8:44 PM Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 2:18 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> > wrote: > > Yeah, I got the impression that that was determined to be the desirable > > behavior, so I made it do that, but I'm not really happy about it > > either. We're not too late to change the CREATE INDEX behavior, but > > let's discuss what is it that we want. > > I don't think I intended to make any such determination -- which > commit do you think established this as the canonical behavior? > > I propose that once a field is set, we should leave it set until the end.
+1 Note that this patch is already behaving like that if the table only contains dead rows.
