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There is an opinion that it's unsafe: https://twitter.com/petervgeoghegan/status/15991919640456724...

There was an extension from Teodor some time ago, plantuner, to disable indexes in a session or globally ("set plantuner.forbid_index='id_idx2';") – but it didn't make it to core, and even to contribs. Maybe because the functionality to disable indexes was mixed with planner hints there. It's a very old story, discussion from 2009: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/47E63672-972E-452...



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