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From: Masahiko Sawada <msawada@postgresql.org>
To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: pgsql: Restrict REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) on user catalog tables.
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:06:23 +0000
Message-ID: <E1x425G-000000042LT-0AM6@gemulon.postgresql.org> (raw)

Restrict REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) on user catalog tables.

REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) is not an MVCC-safe operation; it doesn't
preserve the visibility information, which logical decoding needs
because it reads user catalog tables under a historic snapshot.

Disallow REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) on user catalog tables. Removing this
check requires making it MVCC-safe and logical rewrite mappings.

Backpatch to v19, where REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) was introduced.

Reported-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/apBIFWzHYOaG0auN%40nathan
Backpatch-through: 19

Branch
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REL_19_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/04bb1500253489de049a0f26ff1843197c9da0c0

Modified Files
--------------
contrib/test_decoding/expected/repack.out |  6 ++++++
contrib/test_decoding/sql/repack.sql      |  5 +++++
doc/src/sgml/ref/repack.sgml              |  8 ++++++++
src/backend/commands/repack.c             | 13 +++++++++++++
4 files changed, 32 insertions(+)



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