Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That was what the patch originally used, but it was changed because it > made difficult for psql to auto-complete that.
Psql has to be able to parse it not for auto-completion but because it needs to know that it's not a transactional command. The regular CREATE INDEX can be run from within a transaction but online index builds use two transactions on their own so psql has to know not to insert a BEGIN and savepoint around it. I'll use this opportunity to plug that feature again. I think most people should use autocommit off with on_error_rollack on for most of their daily use. Being able to double check the results of my ad-hoc updates before committing them saved me more headaches than I can count with Oracle. Autocommit off only became practical for interactive use with postgres when savepoints showed up. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
