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Re: Adding REPACK [concurrently]

Mihail Nikalayeu <mihailnikalayeu@gmail.com>

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From: Mihail Nikalayeu <mihailnikalayeu@gmail.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>, Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla <srinath2133@gmail.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Date: 2026-04-06T11:21:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi!

On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 12:48 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> Hmm, how about something like this?
>
>             natt_ext--;
>             if (natt_ext < 0)
>                 ereport(ERROR,
>                         errcode(ERRCODE_DATA_CORRUPTED),
>                         errmsg("insufficient number of attributes stored separately"));
I think it is ok.

> Yeah but I don't want the virtual tuple to be materialized (which would
> happen in tts_virtual_materialize if I set shouldFree=true).  The memory
> should be freed in
>                 ResetPerTupleExprContext(chgcxt->cc_estate);
> anyway, right?  Maybe deserves a comment.

Not sure, ResetPerTupleExprContext resets just "ExecutorState".
But slots are created in another memory context.

Also, we can't reset slot->tts_mcxt itself - it will free the slot also.

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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