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* [PATCH v7 11/16] Add a sub-section to describe schema resolution
@ 2023-09-24 21:59 Karl O. Pinc <kop@karlpinc.com>
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From: Karl O. Pinc @ 2023-09-24 21:59 UTC (permalink / raw)

There are some subtleties to schema resolution.  At first glance it
seems like schema resolution is "for runtime", i.e. it matters when
querying or altering database data.  But it takes a little bit of
thought to reason through what schema resolution means for DDL.  It is
almost surprising that the search path in effect at DDL time persists,
in a sense, in a useful way, regardless of the search path in effect
during "regular" database use.

This explanation also sheds light on the use of CREATE OR REPLACE
sorts of syntaxes, and what gets changed when such syntax is used and
what does not, and why.  At least for those who do not poke about in
the system catalogs and understand the oid relationships.

Using the word "manipulate" is a bit awkward, but is what I came up
with and I believe is made clear.  Maybe there's better phrasing.

Lead the reader through the implications of the search path in a DDL
context so they can better reason about the best search path to use in
their problem domain and better understand why PG behaves as it does.
The whole thing is a little bit wordy and repeats some information
present in other sections.  But this allows the new section to stand
on its own.
---
 doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
index ee30b7b575..6fc6c37b1d 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
@@ -3164,6 +3164,54 @@ SELECT 3 OPERATOR(pg_catalog.+) 4;
    </para>
   </sect2>
 
+  <sect2 id="ddl-schema-resolution">
+    <title>Schema Resolution</title>
+
+    <indexterm>
+     <primary>schema</primary>
+     <secondary>resolution</secondary>
+    </indexterm>
+
+    <para>
+      Schema resolution happens when SQL is run.
+
+      Exactly what this means is usually obvious; using an unqualified table
+      name when creating a table creates the table in the first schema of the
+      search path in effect, the current search path is used to find
+      unqualified table names when executing a <literal>SELECT</literal>, and
+      so forth.
+      But there are less obvious implications when it comes to statements
+      that manipulate <link linkend="ddl-others">database objects</link>:
+      tables, triggers, functions and the like.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      Most SQL expressions appearing within the statements that manipulate
+      database objects are resolved at the time of manipulation.
+      Consider the creation of tables and triggers.
+      The schemas of foreign key table references, the functions and operators
+      used in table and column constraint expressions, table partition
+      expressions, and so forth are resolved at the time of table creation.
+      So is the schema of the function named when a trigger is created.
+      These already-resolved tables, functions, operators,
+      etc. need <emphasis>not</emphasis> be in the search path when the
+      constraints or triggers are executed, when the content of the table is
+      modified and the data validation occurs.
+      This is just as if all the objects were fully schema qualified in the
+      SQL that created the table, trigger, or other database object.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      But functions are different.
+      The point of function creation is to store code for execution later.
+      Schemas are resolved within a function body when the function is called,
+      not when the function is created.
+      This has implications for function behavior consistency and
+      <link linkend="sql-createfunction-security">security</link>.
+      For these reasons function bodies can have their own search paths.
+    </para>
+  </sect2>
+
   <sect2 id="ddl-schemas-priv">
    <title>Schemas and Privileges</title>
 
-- 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
-- 
2.52.0


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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
-- 
2.52.0


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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
-- 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
-- 
2.52.0


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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
-- 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
-- 
2.52.0


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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
-- 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
-- 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
-- 
2.52.0


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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
-- 
2.52.0


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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
-- 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
-- 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
-- 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
-- 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
-- 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
-- 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
-- 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
-- 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

From: Antonin Houska @ 2026-06-16 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)

So far, the relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class used to be
updated by swap_relation_files(), however, not every call of the function
should do that. On the contrary, new feature of REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) will
need to update this information in one case that would be tricky to handle
using swap_relation_files().
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 6f3e4ecff46..92c1b678e6f 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ static void copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldInde
 							TransactionId *pFreezeXid,
 							MultiXactId *pCutoffMulti,
 							ChangeContext *chgcxt);
+static void update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+									MultiXactId cutoffMulti);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack(RepackCommand cmd, bool usingindex,
 								  MemoryContext permcxt);
 static List *get_tables_to_repack_partitioned(RepackCommand cmd,
@@ -2014,13 +2016,6 @@ copy_table_data(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, Relation OldIndex,
  * links) while the latter is the only way to handle cases in which a toast
  * table is added or removed altogether.
  *
- * Additionally, the first relation is marked with relfrozenxid set to
- * frozenXid.  It seems a bit ugly to have this here, but the caller would
- * have to do it anyway, so having it here saves a heap_update.  Note: in
- * the swap-toast-links case, we assume we don't need to change the toast
- * table's relfrozenxid: the new version of the toast table should already
- * have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin, which is good enough.
- *
  * Lastly, if r2 and its toast table and toast index (if any) are mapped,
  * their OIDs are emitted into mapped_tables[].  This is hacky but beats
  * having to look the information up again later in finish_heap_swap.
@@ -2029,9 +2024,7 @@ static void
 swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 					bool swap_toast_by_content,
 					bool is_internal,
-					TransactionId frozenXid,
-					MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
-					Oid *mapped_tables)
+					Oid *mapped_tables, Oid *r1_toastid)
 {
 	Relation	relRelation;
 	HeapTuple	reltup1,
@@ -2063,6 +2056,9 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	relam1 = relform1->relam;
 	relam2 = relform2->relam;
 
+	if (r1_toastid)
+		*r1_toastid = relform1->reltoastrelid;
+
 	if (RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber1) &&
 		RelFileNumberIsValid(relfilenumber2))
 	{
@@ -2178,15 +2174,6 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	 * and then fail to commit the pg_class update.
 	 */
 
-	/* set rel1's frozen Xid and minimum MultiXid */
-	if (relform1->relkind != RELKIND_INDEX)
-	{
-		Assert(!TransactionIdIsValid(frozenXid) ||
-			   TransactionIdIsNormal(frozenXid));
-		relform1->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform1->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-	}
-
 	/* swap size statistics too, since new rel has freshly-updated stats */
 	{
 		int32		swap_pages;
@@ -2288,9 +2275,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 									target_is_pg_class,
 									swap_toast_by_content,
 									is_internal,
-									frozenXid,
-									cutoffMulti,
-									mapped_tables);
+									mapped_tables,
+									NULL);
 			}
 			else
 			{
@@ -2391,9 +2377,8 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 							target_is_pg_class,
 							swap_toast_by_content,
 							is_internal,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 	}
 
 	/* Clean up. */
@@ -2403,6 +2388,36 @@ swap_relation_files(Oid r1, Oid r2, bool target_is_pg_class,
 	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid attributes of pg_class entry, specified
+ * by OID.
+ */
+static void
+update_relation_cutoffs(Oid relid, TransactionId frozenXid,
+						MultiXactId cutoffMulti)
+{
+	Relation	relRelation;
+	HeapTuple	reltup;
+	Form_pg_class relform;
+	CatalogIndexState indstate;
+
+	relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
+	reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(relid));
+	if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
+		elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", relid);
+	relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
+	relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
+	relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
+
+	indstate = CatalogOpenIndexes(relRelation);
+	CatalogTupleUpdateWithInfo(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup,
+							   indstate);
+	CatalogCloseIndexes(indstate);
+
+	heap_freetuple(reltup);
+	table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
+}
+
 /*
  * Remove the transient table that was built by make_new_heap, and finish
  * cleaning up (including rebuilding all indexes on the old heap).
@@ -2420,6 +2435,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 {
 	ObjectAddress object;
 	Oid			mapped_tables[4];
+	Oid			oid_old_toastid;
 	int			i;
 
 	/* Report that we are now swapping relation files */
@@ -2436,7 +2452,7 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 	swap_relation_files(OIDOldHeap, OIDNewHeap,
 						(OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId),
 						swap_toast_by_content, is_internal,
-						frozenXid, cutoffMulti, mapped_tables);
+						mapped_tables, &oid_old_toastid);
 
 	/*
 	 * If it's a system catalog, queue a sinval message to flush all catcaches
@@ -2492,37 +2508,20 @@ finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 								 PROGRESS_REPACK_PHASE_FINAL_CLEANUP);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the relation being rebuilt is pg_class, swap_relation_files()
-	 * couldn't update pg_class's own pg_class entry (check comments in
-	 * swap_relation_files()), thus relfrozenxid was not updated. That's
-	 * annoying because a potential reason for doing a VACUUM FULL is a
-	 * imminent or actual anti-wraparound shutdown.  So, now that we can
-	 * access the new relation using its indices, update relfrozenxid.
-	 * pg_class doesn't have a toast relation, so we don't need to update the
-	 * corresponding toast relation. Not that there's little point moving all
-	 * relfrozenxid updates here since swap_relation_files() needs to write to
-	 * pg_class for non-mapped relations anyway.
+	 * Update relfrozenxid and relminmxid. CCI is needed to see the most
+	 * recent pg_class tuple, created by swap_relation_files(). However that
+	 * CCI makes us use the new relation file. Therefore we cannot do this
+	 * before indexes have been rebuilt too.
 	 */
-	if (OIDOldHeap == RelationRelationId)
-	{
-		Relation	relRelation;
-		HeapTuple	reltup;
-		Form_pg_class relform;
-
-		relRelation = table_open(RelationRelationId, RowExclusiveLock);
-
-		reltup = SearchSysCacheCopy1(RELOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(OIDOldHeap));
-		if (!HeapTupleIsValid(reltup))
-			elog(ERROR, "cache lookup failed for relation %u", OIDOldHeap);
-		relform = (Form_pg_class) GETSTRUCT(reltup);
-
-		relform->relfrozenxid = frozenXid;
-		relform->relminmxid = cutoffMulti;
-
-		CatalogTupleUpdate(relRelation, &reltup->t_self, reltup);
+	CommandCounterIncrement();
+	update_relation_cutoffs(OIDOldHeap, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
-		table_close(relRelation, RowExclusiveLock);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * The same for TOAST, if needed. In the swap-toast-links case, the new
+	 * the toast table should already have relfrozenxid set to RecentXmin.
+	 */
+	if (OidIsValid(oid_old_toastid) && swap_toast_by_content)
+		update_relation_cutoffs(oid_old_toastid, frozenXid, cutoffMulti);
 
 	/* Destroy new heap with old filenumber */
 	object.classId = RelationRelationId;
@@ -4072,9 +4071,8 @@ rebuild_relation_finish_concurrent(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap,
 							(old_table_oid == RelationRelationId),
 							false,	/* swap_toast_by_content */
 							true,
-							InvalidTransactionId,
-							InvalidMultiXactId,
-							mapped_tables);
+							mapped_tables,
+							NULL);
 
 #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
 
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