Allow old WAL recycling during REPACK CONCURRENTLY
Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
Allow old WAL recycling during REPACK CONCURRENTLY During REPACK CONCURRENTLY, logical decoding keeps replication slot.restart_lsn pinned behind the oldest running transaction, which is often the long-lived REPACK transaction itself. As a result, old WAL segments are retained longer than necessary. This commit advances the replication slot each time WAL insertion crosses a segment boundary, so obsolete WAL files can be recycled while REPACK is still running. Author: Zhijie Hou <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TY4PR01MB17718B44164522D0798F8E898940A2@TY4PR01MB17718.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Files
| Path | Change | +/− |
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| src/backend/commands/repack_worker.c | modified | +18 −2 |
Discussion
- Adding REPACK [concurrently] 409 messages · 2025-07-26 → 2026-07-01