> Yes, I thought of not dumping it. The problem is that we don't delete > the index when it fails, so I assumed we didn't want to lose the index > creation information. I need to understand why we did that. Why do we > have pg_dump dump the index then?
Because pg_restore will recreate the index from scratch, which is presumably what users want most of the time. So this issue doesn't exist outside of pg_upgrade. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers