Question

My Java web-app that launches serveral sql scripts on startup, one of those scripts is a simple index creation on a foreign key.

CREATE INDEX "IDX_NAME" on "TABLE" ("IDFK") TABLESPACE "MYTBS"

Unfortunately my table has several million rows and the index creation holds the web-app in startup for a few hours (3 in this case).

Is there a way to create the index and populate it asynchronously?

Answer 1

use online feature:

CREATE INDEX "IDX_NAME" on "TABLE" ("IDFK") TABLESPACE "MYTBS" online;