Re: REPACK and naming

David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>

From: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>

To: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

Cc: Marcos Pegoraro <marcos@f10.com.br>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2025-09-17T13:48:11Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Wednesday, September 17, 2025, Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
wrote:

> On 2025-Sep-17, David G. Johnston wrote:
>
> > Concretely, maybe we should remove vacuum full from the vacuum command
> > page, and just call it out as compatibility spelling of repack on its
> > page.  Maybe do the same for cluster (I haven’t dived into the new
> feature
> > enough to confidently describe all this yet though).
>
> I think we should list VACUUM FULL as deprecated, document that feature
> in the REPACK documentation page, and leave VACUUM FULL in working state
> so as not to break existing scripts.  Same for CLUSTER.
>

I was unclear - this is indeed what I suggesting as well.  Reframe the
documentation but leave the commands functioning.

David J.