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3c84046 is the original commit that introduced index_set_state_flags(), where the presence of SnapshotNow made necessary the use of an in-place update. SnapshotNow has been removed in 813fb03, so there is no actual reasons to not make this operation transactional. Note that while making the operation more robust, using a transactional operation in this routine was not strictly necessary as there was no use case for it yet. However, some future features are going to need a transactional behavior, like support for CREATE/DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY with partitioned tables, where indexes in a partition tree need to have all their pg_index.indis* flags updated in the same transaction to make the operation stable to the end-user by keeping partition trees consistent, even with a failure mid-flight. REINDEX CONCURRENTLY uses already transactional updates when swapping the old and new indexes, making this change more consistent with the index-swapping logic. Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Anastasia Lubennikova Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200903080440.GA8559@paquier.xyz
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