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Re: REPACK and naming

Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com>

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From: Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date: 2025-09-17T13:01:05Z
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Em ter., 16 de set. de 2025 às 13:40, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
escreveu:

> I am starting to get worried about the confusing of adding a REPACK
> command.  We already have a lot of confusion around vacuum and analyze:
>
> *  autoanalyze does vacuum and analyze
> *  VACUUM FULL is much different from VACUUM
>
> It seems if we add REPACK as a command, it is somewhere between VACUUM
> FULL and VACUUM in severity/impact.  Should we be rethinking the naming
> in this area?
>
SqlServer has similar feature.
SHRINK

best regards,
Ranier Vilela