On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 9:24 PM Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 10:22:28PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > I always thought that create index concurrently was prevented from > > running concurrently in a table by the ShareUpdateExclusive lock that's > > held during the operation. > > REINDEX CONCURRENTLY and CIC can deadlock while waiting for each other > to finish after their validation phase, see: > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20190507030756.gd1...@paquier.xyz > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20190507032543.gh1...@paquier.xyz
Michael, Thanks for the cross-link. Do you think this would be valuable to document at the same time? Or did you just want to ensure we were also aware of this particular downfall? If the latter, I appreciate it, it's helpful info. If the latter, let me know, and I'll try to update the patch. Thanks, James