Re: Allow CLUSTER, VACUUM FULL and REINDEX to change tablespace on the fly

On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 03:35:27PM +0300, Alexey Kondratov wrote:
> Anyway, new version is attached. It is rebased in order to resolve conflicts
> with a recent fix of REINDEX CONCURRENTLY + temp relations, and includes
> this small comment fix.

Thanks for rebasing - I actually started to do that yesterday.

I extracted the bits from your original 0001 patch which handled CLUSTER and
VACUUM FULL.  I don't think if there's any interest in combining that with
ALTER anymore.  On another thread (1), I tried to implement that, and Tom
pointed out problem with the implementation, but also didn't like the idea.

I'm including some proposed fixes, but didn't yet update the docs, errors or
tests for that.  (I'm including your v8 untouched in hopes of not messing up
the cfbot).  My fixes avoid an issue if you try to REINDEX onto pg_default, I
think due to moving system toast indexes.

template1=# REINDEX DATABASE template1 TABLESPACE pg_default;
2020-02-29 08:01:41.835 CST [23382] WARNING:  cannot change tablespace of indexes for mapped relations, skipping all
WARNING:  cannot change tablespace of indexes for mapped relations, skipping all
2020-02-29 08:01:41.894 CST [23382] ERROR:  SMgrRelation hashtable corrupted
2020-02-29 08:01:41.894 CST [23382] STATEMENT:  REINDEX DATABASE template1 TABLESPACE pg_default;
2020-02-29 08:01:41.894 CST [23382] WARNING:  AbortTransaction while in COMMIT state
2020-02-29 08:01:41.895 CST [23382] PANIC:  cannot abort transaction 491, it was already committed

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Justin

(1) https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200208150453.GV403%40telsasoft.com