Re: Adding REPACK [concurrently]

Mikhail Nikalayeu <mihailnikalayeu@gmail.com>

From: Mihail Nikalayeu <mihailnikalayeu@gmail.com>
To: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Date: 2025-12-02T16:22:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Improve REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) error messages some more

  2. Add CONCURRENTLY option to REPACK

  3. Make index_concurrently_create_copy more general

  4. Document the 'command' column of pg_stat_progress_repack

  5. Introduce the REPACK command

  6. Split vacuumdb to create vacuuming.c/h

  7. Revert changes to CONCURRENTLY that "sped up" Xmin advance

Hi!

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.

Best greetings,
Mikhail.