Re: [GENERAL] dropping an index inside a transaction

2012-03-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Andy Chambers wrote: > Hi All, > > If one drops an index inside a transaction, is that index still usable > by other transactions?  My use-case is loading millions of records > into a heavily indexed table.  I'd like to speed up the load by > temporarily dropping t

Re: [GENERAL] dropping an index inside a transaction

2012-03-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Andy Chambers wrote: > Hi All, > > If one drops an index inside a transaction, is that index still usable > by other transactions?  My use-case is loading millions of records > into a heavily indexed table.  I'd like to speed up the load by > temporarily dropping t

[GENERAL] dropping an index inside a transaction

2012-03-17 Thread Andy Chambers
Hi All, If one drops an index inside a transaction, is that index still usable by other transactions? My use-case is loading millions of records into a heavily indexed table. I'd like to speed up the load by temporarily dropping the indices. I'm wondering if I can do this inside a transaction s