Throw error sooner for unlogged GiST indexes.

Throwing an error only after we've built the main index fork is pretty
unfriendly when the table already contains data.  Per gripe from Jay
Levitt.

diff --git a/src/backend/access/gist/gist.c b/src/backend/access/gist/gist.c
index 4e732d1d8570f6c880d1e15b38f798b14fa8cff2..61be9dbf230e9d2e5ea291c1f6ff061bb73e1dc8 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/access/gist/gist.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/gist/gist.c
@@ -113,6 +113,16 @@ gistbuild(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
        elog(ERROR, "index \"%s\" already contains data",
             RelationGetRelationName(index));
 
+   /*
+    * We can't yet handle unlogged GiST indexes, because we depend on LSNs.
+    * This is duplicative of an error in gistbuildempty, but we want to check
+    * here so as to throw error before doing all the index-build work.
+    */
+   if (heap->rd_rel->relpersistence == RELPERSISTENCE_UNLOGGED)
+       ereport(ERROR,
+               (errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+                errmsg("unlogged GiST indexes are not supported")));
+
    /* no locking is needed */
    initGISTstate(&buildstate.giststate, index);