Re: [GENERAL] temporarily deactivate an index

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Viktor Rosenfeld <rosenfel@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:
>> That works, but I'm still looking for another way to deactivate the
>> index. The reason being, that my query load is randomly generated by
>> a Java program and I don't want to go and change the SQL compiler.
>
> Well, you're going to have to change *something* on the client side,
> assuming you want this behavioral change to affect only some queries.
>
> Otherwise, in versions that have CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY you could
> mark the index not ready to use yet (see pg_index.indisvalid or
> pg_index.indisready depending on version).
>

if i mark the index not ready (using pg_index.indisvalid or
pg_index.indisready depending on version), will the index be updated
if in another transaction i make an insert?

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Jaime Casanova
Soporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL
Guayaquil - Ecuador
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