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From: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
To: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Pg Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Cc: Fujii Masao <[email protected]>
Cc: Mihail Nikalayeu <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Adding REPACK [concurrently]
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:06:13 -0400
Message-ID: <CAJSLCQ1YvjRvjji29dNMiYy+JnseMZkDpx4Ui0zcpLdk8wviyg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]> wrote:
> Note choice of shell command name: though all the other programs in
> src/bin/scripts do not use the "pg_" prefix, this one does; we thought
> it made no sense to follow the old programs as precedent because there
> seems to be a lament for the lack of pg_ prefix in those, and we only
> keep what they are because of their long history.  This one has no
> history.
>
> Still on pg_repackdb, the implementation here is to install a symlink
> called pg_repackdb which points to vacuumdb, and make the program behave
> differently when called in this way.  The amount of additional code for
> this is relatively small, so I think this is a worthy technique --
> assuming it works.  If it doesn't, Antonin proposed a separate binary
> that just calls some functions from vacuumdb.  Or maybe we could have a
> common source file that both utilities call.
>

What's the plan for clusterdb? It seems like we'd ideally create a
stand alone pg_repackdb which replaces clusterdb and also allows us to
remove the FULL options from vacuumdb.


Robert Treat
https://xzilla.net

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