Re: A concurrent VACUUM FULL?

Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>

From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
To: Erik Nordström <erik@timescale.com>
Cc: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-06-30T11:46:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2025-Jun-30, Erik Nordström wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> wrote:

> > Patch [1] is in the queue that allows both reads and writes. (An exclusive
> > lock is acquired here for the swaps, but that should be held for very short
> > time.)
>
> That sounds great. Do you know if there's anything I can do to help?

It would be very valuable if you can review the code, test it under the
weirdest conditions you can imagine or just under normal conditions,
proof-read the documentation, try to see if anything is missing that
should be there, and so on.  Everything that you would expect from a new
feature released as part of the next Postgres release.  Any
problems/crashes/ abnormalities that you report before the patch is
included in Postgres, is one less issue that we'll have to deal with
after the release.

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Álvaro Herrera         PostgreSQL Developer  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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