From: Tom Lane Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:42:03 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Remove no-longer-accurate claim that REINDEX won't invalidate cached X-Git-Url: http://waps.l3s.uni-hannover.de/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ee189c2454ae5edbcb8b385996892b0c66e0b89e;p=users%2Fbernd%2Fpostgres.git Remove no-longer-accurate claim that REINDEX won't invalidate cached plans. --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml index badf61d2f3..f9a1dd38be 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindex.sgml @@ -231,9 +231,7 @@ REINDEX { INDEX | TABLE | DATABASE | SYSTEM } nam subsequent CREATE INDEX locks out writes but not reads; since the index is not there, no read will attempt to use it, meaning that there will be no blocking but reads might be forced into expensive sequential - scans. Another important point is that the drop/create approach - invalidates any cached query plans that use the index, while - REINDEX does not. + scans.