Re: vacuumdb: add --dry-run

Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>

From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>

To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

Cc: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>, Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2025-12-08T19:45:07Z

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Add ParallelSlotSetIdle().
- 750816971b35 19 (unreleased) landed
vacuumdb: Add --dry-run.
- d107176d27c7 19 (unreleased) landed
vacuumdb: Move some variables to the vacuumingOptions struct.
- cf1450e57799 19 (unreleased) landed
Log a note at program start when running in dry-run mode
- c05dee191125 19 (unreleased) cited

On 2025-Dec-08, Nathan Bossart wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 08, 2025 at 12:27:26PM -0600, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 08, 2025 at 07:23:16PM +0100, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> I haven't read this thread, but chanced to come across this and wanted
> >> to note recent commit c05dee191125.  I'm not opposed to changing what
> >> went in there, but let's make them all the same.
> > 
> > Ah, that must've been where I stole from originally.  Will switch it back.
> 
> As promised...

This looks reasonable to me in a quick read.

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