Re: why there is not VACUUM FULL CONCURRENTLY?

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:

> On 2025-Jan-30, Michael Banck wrote:
>
> > > I haven't addressed the problem of a new command yet - for that I'd like to
> > > see some sort of consensus, so that I do not have to do all the related
> > > changes many times.
> >
> > Well, looks like this patch-set is blocked on the bikeshedding part?
> >
> > Somebody should call a shot here, then.
>
> A bunch of people discussed this patch in today's developer meeting in
> Brussels. There's pretty much a consensus on using the verb REPACK
> CONCURRENTLY for this new command -- where unadorned REPACK would be
> VACUUM FULL, and we'd have something like REPACK WITH INDEX or maybe
> REPACK USING INDEX to take the CLUSTER place.

This is a patch that adds the REPACK command (w/o CONCURRENTLY). I'll
incorporate it into the patch series but it'd be great if this part was a
little bit stable before I start to rebase the depending patches. Thanks.

--
Antonin Houska
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