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$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml,v 1.60 2007/01/31 23:26:03 momjian Exp $ |
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$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml,v 1.61 2007/04/03 22:38:35 momjian Exp $ |
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PostgreSQL documentation |
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uniqueness violation in a unique index, the <command>CREATE INDEX</> |
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command will fail but leave behind an <quote>invalid</> index. This index |
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will be ignored for querying purposes because it might be incomplete; |
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however it will still consume update overhead. The recommended recovery |
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however it will still consume update overhead. The <application>psql</> |
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<command>\d</> command will mark such an index as <literal>INVALID</>: |
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<programlisting> |
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postgres=# \d tab |
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Table "public.tab" |
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Column | Type | Modifiers |
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--------+---------+----------- |
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col | integer | |
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Indexes: |
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"idx" btree (col) INVALID |
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</programlisting> |
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The recommended recovery |
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method in such cases is to drop the index and try again to perform |
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<command>CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY</>. (Another possibility is to rebuild |
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the index with <command>REINDEX</>. However, since <command>REINDEX</> |
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