Comments in IndexBuildHeapScan describe the indexing of recently-dead

tuples as needed "to keep VACUUM from complaining", but actually there is
a more compelling reason to do it: failure to do so violates MVCC semantics.
This is because a pre-existing serializable transaction might try to use
the index after we finish (re)building it, and it might fail to find tuples
it should be able to see.  We got this mostly right, but not in the case
of partial indexes: the code mistakenly discarded recently-dead tuples for
partial indexes.  Fix that, and adjust the comments.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/index.c b/src/backend/catalog/index.c
index ca057c7f2fa..1a5c3b3c3bd 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/index.c
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/index.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/catalog/index.c,v 1.263 2006/03/05 15:58:22 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/catalog/index.c,v 1.264 2006/03/24 23:02:17 tgl Exp $
  *
  *
  * INTERFACE ROUTINES
@@ -1473,7 +1473,9 @@ IndexBuildHeapScan(Relation heapRelation,
 
 					/*
 					 * If tuple is recently deleted then we must index it
-					 * anyway to keep VACUUM from complaining.
+					 * anyway to preserve MVCC semantics.  (Pre-existing
+					 * transactions could try to use the index after we
+					 * finish building it, and may need to see such tuples.)
 					 */
 					indexIt = true;
 					tupleIsAlive = false;
@@ -1541,13 +1543,10 @@ IndexBuildHeapScan(Relation heapRelation,
 
 		/*
 		 * In a partial index, discard tuples that don't satisfy the
-		 * predicate.  We can also discard recently-dead tuples, since VACUUM
-		 * doesn't complain about tuple count mismatch for partial indexes.
+		 * predicate.
 		 */
 		if (predicate != NIL)
 		{
-			if (!tupleIsAlive)
-				continue;
 			if (!ExecQual(predicate, econtext, false))
 				continue;
 		}