Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX ALL

2005-04-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Russell Smith wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 08:18 am, Andreas Pflug wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: The question is coming from the TODO: Allow REINDEX to rebuild all database indexes, remove contrib/reindexdb We can do whatever the community wants :) Just tell us what it is. Does this pos

Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX ALL

2005-04-05 Thread Russell Smith
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 08:18 am, Andreas Pflug wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > The question is coming from the TODO: > > > > Allow REINDEX to rebuild all database indexes, remove > > contrib/reindexdb > > > > We can do whatever the community wants :) Just tell us what it is. > Does this pose a p

Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX ALL

2005-04-05 Thread Andreas Pflug
Joshua D. Drake wrote: The question is coming from the TODO: Allow REINDEX to rebuild all database indexes, remove contrib/reindexdb We can do whatever the community wants :) Just tell us what it is. RECREATE option that performs like DROP/CREATE INDEX (best without changing the indexes OID) Reg

Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX ALL

2005-04-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
The question is coming from the TODO: Allow REINDEX to rebuild all database indexes, remove contrib/reindexdb We can do whatever the community wants :) Just tell us what it is. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake IIRC, "REINDEX DATABASE" only reindexes the system catalogs. I suppose Joshua is thinking of

Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX ALL

2005-04-05 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Sch=F6nig?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is this patch supposed to do? > As far as I can see, there is already a reindex command ... > test=# \h reindex > Command: REINDEX > Description: rebuild indexes > Syntax: > REINDEX { DATABASE | TABLE | INDEX } name [

Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX ALL

2005-04-05 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Hello, We are considering submitting a patch for REINDEX ALL. What syntax would we like? REINDEX ALL? REINDEX DATABASE ALL? Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Command Prompt, Inc., Your PostgreSQL solutions company. 503-667-4564 Custom programming, 24x7 support, managed services,

[HACKERS] REINDEX ALL

2005-04-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, We are considering submitting a patch for REINDEX ALL. What syntax would we like? REINDEX ALL? REINDEX DATABASE ALL? Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Command Prompt, Inc., Your PostgreSQL solutions company. 503-667-4564 Custom programming, 24x7 support, managed services, and hosting Open Source

Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL

2002-08-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > "scott.marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sorry, that should have been: > > Isn't it true that reindex's behavior ON A FAILURE is to simply, quietly > > delete the index? that was reported ^ > > No. > > If you are doing a standalone system index rebuild (wi

Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL

2002-08-27 Thread Tom Lane
"scott.marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry, that should have been: > Isn't it true that reindex's behavior ON A FAILURE is to simply, quietly > delete the index? that was reported ^ No. If you are doing a standalone system index rebuild (with backend -P switch) then REIND

Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL

2002-08-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
I am not sure, but it certainly makes sense that it would drop the index on failure. I would never expect it to fail, however. --- scott.marlowe wrote: > Sorry, that should have been: > > Isn't it true that reindex's beha

Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL

2002-08-27 Thread scott.marlowe
Sorry, that should have been: Isn't it true that reindex's behavior ON A FAILURE is to simply, quietly delete the index? that was reported ^ On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > REINDEX just rebuilds the index, not just drop it. In fact, 7.3 will > have a reindexdb sc

Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL

2002-08-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > > Would it be worth adding REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL as actual SQL commands? > > > This would be neat. Plus, it means we don't have to worry about having > > > unix-only script in the dis

Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL

2002-08-27 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > Would it be worth adding REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL as actual SQL commands? > > This would be neat. Plus, it means we don't have to worry about having > > unix-only script in the distro once we have Win32 support. >

Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL

2002-08-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
REINDEX just rebuilds the index, not just drop it. In fact, 7.3 will have a reindexdb script. --- scott.marlowe wrote: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > > Would it be wor

Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL

2002-08-27 Thread scott.marlowe
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > Would it be worth adding REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL as actual SQL commands? > > This would be neat. Plus, it means we don't have to worry about having > > unix-only script in the distro once we have Win32 support. >

Re: [HACKERS] REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL

2002-08-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > Would it be worth adding REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL as actual SQL commands? > This would be neat. Plus, it means we don't have to worry about having > unix-only script in the distro once we have Win32 support. > > Actually, we should just leave the 'ALL' off. T

[HACKERS] REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL

2002-08-27 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Would it be worth adding REINDEX ALL and CLUSTER ALL as actual SQL commands? This would be neat. Plus, it means we don't have to worry about having unix-only script in the distro once we have Win32 support. Actually, we should just leave the 'ALL' off. That will make them behave like VACUUM wit