Re: Fix REPACK with WITHOUT OVERLAPS replica identity indexes

Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>

From: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>

To: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>

Cc: alvherre@kurilemu.de, Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2026-05-13T12:00:38Z

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Fix REPACK with WITHOUT OVERLAPS replica identity indexes
- 36f52a59b315 19 (unreleased) landed
Remove working test that was supposed to fail
- 2fd787d0aac1 19 (unreleased) cited

Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not sure whether we should change the behavior in PG19. Alvaro may have
> a better idea about that. But I agree that we can at least clarify the code
> comment and documentation. The attached patch attempts to do that.

I meant just a comment that reminds developers that something needs to be
fixed, rather than defending the inconsistent behavior.

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Antonin Houska
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