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Document concurrent indexes waiting on each other
Because regular CREATE INDEX commands are independent, and there's no logical data dependency, it's not immediately obvious that transactions held by concurrent index builds on one table will block the second phase of concurrent index creation on an unrelated table, so document this caveat. Backpatch this all the way back. In branch master, mention that only some indexes are involved. Author: James Coleman <jtc331@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe994=PUrn8CJZ4UEo_S-FfRr_3ogERyhtdgHAb2WG_Ufg@mail.gmail.com
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doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml

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wait for existing transactions that have modified the table to terminate.
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After the second scan, the index build must wait for any transactions
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that have a snapshot (see <xref linkend="mvcc"/>) predating the second
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scan to terminate. Then finally the index can be marked ready for use,
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scan to terminate, including transactions used by any phase of concurrent
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index builds on other tables. Then finally the index can be marked ready for use,
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and the <command>CREATE INDEX</command> command terminates.
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Even then, however, the index may not be immediately usable for queries:
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in the worst case, it cannot be used as long as transactions exist that

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