Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Reindex was originally > designed to fix broken indexes, and, at least in earlier encarnations, > should something stop it in the middle of reindexing I believe it is > possible to be left with no index. That was once true but these days reindex is perfectly crash-safe. The only case where it's not is where you want to reindex a shared catalog's index (eg one of pg_database's), and we don't let you do that in multiuser mode anyway. regards, tom lane
