Re: Adding REPACK [concurrently]

Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>

From: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>

To: Mihail Nikalayeu <mihailnikalayeu@gmail.com>

Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>

Date: 2025-12-03T07:56:01Z

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Improve REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) error messages some more
- 378dffaf8c80 19 (unreleased) landed
Add CONCURRENTLY option to REPACK
- 28d534e2ae0a 19 (unreleased) landed
Make index_concurrently_create_copy more general
- 33bf7318f94c 19 (unreleased) landed
Document the 'command' column of pg_stat_progress_repack
- a630ac5c2016 19 (unreleased) landed
Introduce the REPACK command
- ac58465e0618 19 (unreleased) landed
Split vacuumdb to create vacuuming.c/h
- c4067383cb2c 19 (unreleased) landed
Revert changes to CONCURRENTLY that "sped up" Xmin advance
- 042b584c7f7d 14.4 cited

Mihail Nikalayeu <mihailnikalayeu@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> wrote:
> > Not sure, cluster.sql already seems to do the same.
> I think in the case of CONCURRENTLY it may behave a little bit
> different, but not sure.
> 
> > I miss the point. The current coding is such that this part
> I mean call it periodically in both loops: scan loop and insertion loop.

ok, that makes sense. I'll add that to the next version. Thanks.

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Antonin Houska
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