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Re: Adding REPACK [concurrently]

Mihail Nikalayeu <mihailnikalayeu@gmail.com>

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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: 2026-01-12T18:20:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hello, Antonin!

More comments - now for 0005 (but v29, but I think they are mostly up to date).

--- 0005 ---

> potentiallly
extra 'l' in commit message

> Memory the queue is located int.
"in"?

>  again if its still eligible
if it's still eligible

> int initialized;
probably better to be bool (as in shared)

> DecodingWorkerState
such type does not exists in commit

> REPACK_WORKER_MAIN
Not used in code anywhere.

> int64 timeout = 0;
> WaitLSNResult   res;
formatting issue here (tab vs space)

> if (size >= MaxAllocSize)
Seems like we lost that check, I think it may be executed on storing
the data or before "tup = (HeapTuple) palloc(HEAPTUPLESIZE + t_len);"
in apply_concurrent_changes

> bool done;
I still think it is a confusing name.

> chgdst.file_seq = WORKER_FILE_SNAPSHOT + 1;
I think it is better to increment it once a snapshot is received. And
rename to last_processed/last_improrted to be aligned with
last_exported.

Best regards,
Mikhail.

Commits

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  1. Allow old WAL recycling during REPACK CONCURRENTLY

  2. Advance restart_lsn more eagerly in LogicalConfirmReceivedLocation

  3. Remove unnecessary signal handler change

  4. Improve REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) error messages some more

  5. Revert "Allow logical replication snapshots to be database-specific"

  6. Move REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) test out of stock regression tests

  7. REPACK: do not require REPLICATION or LOGIN

  8. Add missing initialization

  9. Simplify declaration of memcpy target

  10. Reserve replication slots specifically for REPACK

  11. doc: Add an example of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY)

  12. Allow logical replication snapshots to be database-specific

  13. Avoid different-size pointer-to-integer cast

  14. Fix valgrind failure

  15. Add CONCURRENTLY option to REPACK

  16. Rename cluster.c to repack.c (and corresponding .h)

  17. Allow index_create to suppress index_build progress reporting

  18. Make index_concurrently_create_copy more general

  19. Document the 'command' column of pg_stat_progress_repack

  20. Introduce the REPACK command

  21. Toggle logical decoding dynamically based on logical slot presence.

  22. Split vacuumdb to create vacuuming.c/h

  23. Remove ReorderBufferTupleBuf structure.

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

  25. VACUUM: ignore indexing operations with CONCURRENTLY