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REPACK and naming

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Cc: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date: 2025-09-16T16:40:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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?

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