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* [PATCH v51 05/10] invert meaning of index_create flag bit
@ 2026-04-03 19:08 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-04-03 19:08 UTC (permalink / raw)

---
 src/backend/catalog/index.c      | 20 +++++++++++---------
 src/backend/catalog/toasting.c   |  2 +-
 src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c |  1 -
 src/include/catalog/index.h      |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/index.c b/src/backend/catalog/index.c
index 4b8ed2c7660..5a7c9d81917 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/index.c
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/index.c
@@ -715,9 +715,9 @@ UpdateIndexRelation(Oid indexoid,
  *			already exists.
  *		INDEX_CREATE_PARTITIONED:
  *			create a partitioned index (table must be partitioned)
- *		INDEX_CREATE_REPORT_PROGRESS:
- *			update the backend's progress information during index build.
-
+ *		INDEX_CREATE_SUPPRESS_PROGRESS:
+ *			don't report progress during the index build.
+ *
  * constr_flags: flags passed to index_constraint_create
  *		(only if INDEX_CREATE_ADD_CONSTRAINT is set)
  * allow_system_table_mods: allow table to be a system catalog
@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ index_create(Relation heapRelation,
 	bool		invalid = (flags & INDEX_CREATE_INVALID) != 0;
 	bool		concurrent = (flags & INDEX_CREATE_CONCURRENT) != 0;
 	bool		partitioned = (flags & INDEX_CREATE_PARTITIONED) != 0;
-	bool		progress = (flags & INDEX_CREATE_REPORT_PROGRESS) != 0;
+	bool		progress = (flags & INDEX_CREATE_SUPPRESS_PROGRESS) == 0;
 	char		relkind;
 	TransactionId relfrozenxid;
 	MultiXactId relminmxid;
@@ -1454,13 +1454,15 @@ index_create_copy(Relation heapRelation, bool concurrently,
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * Note: The current callers do not need INDEX_CREATE_REPORT_PROGRESS. If
-	 * 'concurrently' is true, there is no build at all. Otherwise the index
-	 * build is a sub-command of REPACK. The current infrastructure does not
-	 * allow two commands to report their progress at the same time.
+	 * The current callers do not need to report progress: if 'concurrently' is
+	 * true, there is no build at all to report about; and otherwise the index
+	 * build is a sub-command of REPACK, and the current progress reporting
+	 * infrastructure does not allow two commands to report their progress at
+	 * the same time.
 	 */
 	if (concurrently)
-		flags = INDEX_CREATE_SKIP_BUILD | INDEX_CREATE_CONCURRENT;
+		flags = INDEX_CREATE_SKIP_BUILD | INDEX_CREATE_CONCURRENT |
+			INDEX_CREATE_SUPPRESS_PROGRESS;
 
 	/*
 	 * Now create the new index.
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/toasting.c b/src/backend/catalog/toasting.c
index 51b27a8c71c..dcee536fd3f 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/toasting.c
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/toasting.c
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ create_toast_table(Relation rel, Oid toastOid, Oid toastIndexOid,
 				 BTREE_AM_OID,
 				 rel->rd_rel->reltablespace,
 				 collationIds, opclassIds, NULL, coloptions, NULL, (Datum) 0,
-				 INDEX_CREATE_IS_PRIMARY | INDEX_CREATE_REPORT_PROGRESS, 0,
+				 INDEX_CREATE_IS_PRIMARY, 0,
 				 true, true, NULL);
 
 	table_close(toast_rel, NoLock);
diff --git a/src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c b/src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c
index 932924c13e0..cba379810c7 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c
@@ -1231,7 +1231,6 @@ DefineIndex(ParseState *pstate,
 		flags |= INDEX_CREATE_PARTITIONED;
 	if (stmt->primary)
 		flags |= INDEX_CREATE_IS_PRIMARY;
-	flags |= INDEX_CREATE_REPORT_PROGRESS;
 
 	/*
 	 * If the table is partitioned, and recursion was declined but partitions
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/index.h b/src/include/catalog/index.h
index 7ebe4f0bd87..9f538dac798 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/index.h
+++ b/src/include/catalog/index.h
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ extern void index_check_primary_key(Relation heapRel,
 #define	INDEX_CREATE_IF_NOT_EXISTS			(1 << 4)
 #define	INDEX_CREATE_PARTITIONED			(1 << 5)
 #define INDEX_CREATE_INVALID				(1 << 6)
-#define INDEX_CREATE_REPORT_PROGRESS		(1 << 7)
+#define INDEX_CREATE_SUPPRESS_PROGRESS		(1 << 7)
 
 extern Oid	index_create(Relation heapRelation,
 						 const char *indexRelationName,
-- 
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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





^ permalink  raw  reply  [nested|flat] 109+ messages in thread

* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





^ permalink  raw  reply  [nested|flat] 109+ messages in thread

* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





^ permalink  raw  reply  [nested|flat] 109+ messages in thread

* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





^ permalink  raw  reply  [nested|flat] 109+ messages in thread

* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





^ permalink  raw  reply  [nested|flat] 109+ messages in thread

* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





^ permalink  raw  reply  [nested|flat] 109+ messages in thread

* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





^ permalink  raw  reply  [nested|flat] 109+ messages in thread

* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





^ permalink  raw  reply  [nested|flat] 109+ messages in thread

* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





^ permalink  raw  reply  [nested|flat] 109+ messages in thread

* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





^ permalink  raw  reply  [nested|flat] 109+ messages in thread

* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





^ permalink  raw  reply  [nested|flat] 109+ messages in thread

* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





^ permalink  raw  reply  [nested|flat] 109+ messages in thread

* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





^ permalink  raw  reply  [nested|flat] 109+ messages in thread

* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





^ permalink  raw  reply  [nested|flat] 109+ messages in thread

* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





^ permalink  raw  reply  [nested|flat] 109+ messages in thread

* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





^ permalink  raw  reply  [nested|flat] 109+ messages in thread

* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





^ permalink  raw  reply  [nested|flat] 109+ messages in thread

* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





^ permalink  raw  reply  [nested|flat] 109+ messages in thread

* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





^ permalink  raw  reply  [nested|flat] 109+ messages in thread

* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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* [PATCH] REPACK CONCURRENTLY: Initialize the range table more honestly
@ 2026-07-03 10:47 Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 109+ messages in thread

From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-07-03 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)

We were skipping a bunch of things that are mostly unnecessary for
REPACK.  However, one thing that seems would be better to pass closer to
truth, is the updatedCols bitmapset in the range table entry for the
repacked table.  Cons up an RTE and install it into the EState.

This only has an effect on btree indexes, because certain operations are
optimized in the case of unchanged columns; and even then, correctnesss
is not being compromised.

The values we pass after this commit are not fully trustworthy either,
because we simply say "all columns were updated" for all insert/updates,
regardless of whether their values were actually modified or not.
However, this way we err to the side of caution rather than to the
opposite direction as we were originally doing.  This could be refined
in the future, but there's a trade-off: determining whether the column
was in fact updated could be expensive.

Author: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <[email protected]>
Backpatch-through: 19
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18222.1782126731@localhost
---
 src/backend/commands/repack.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/repack.c b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
index 83a49afe7e1..faa07d1a118 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/repack.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "libpq/pqmq.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "optimizer/optimizer.h"
+#include "parser/parse_relation.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
 #include "replication/logicalrelation.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
@@ -3019,8 +3020,60 @@ initialize_change_context(ChangeContext *chgcxt,
 	/* Only initialize fields needed by ExecInsertIndexTuples(). */
 	chgcxt->cc_estate = CreateExecutorState();
 
-	chgcxt->cc_rri = (ResultRelInfo *) palloc(sizeof(ResultRelInfo));
-	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 0, 0, 0);
+	/*
+	 * Set up a range table for the executor, containing our repacked table as
+	 * its only member.
+	 */
+	{
+		RangeTblEntry *rte;
+		TupleDesc	desc = RelationGetDescr(relation);
+		List	   *perminfos = NIL;
+		Bitmapset  *updatedCols = NULL;
+		RTEPermissionInfo *perminfo;
+
+		/*
+		 * For our use, the RTE only needs to have perminfoindex initialized,
+		 * but there's no reason to not set the fields whose values we have at
+		 * hand.
+		 */
+		rte = makeNode(RangeTblEntry);
+		rte->rtekind = RTE_RELATION;
+		rte->relid = RelationGetRelid(relation);
+		rte->relkind = RelationGetForm(relation)->relkind;
+		/* Create the RTEPermissionInfo instance (and set ->perminfoindex). */
+		addRTEPermissionInfo(&perminfos, rte);
+
+		/*
+		 * Initialize updatedCols to show that all columns are updated.  This
+		 * is of course not necessarily true, and we cannot know this early;
+		 * but this is only used by ExecInsertIndexTuples to flag index
+		 * updates with no logical value changes, so if it's wrong, nothing
+		 * terribly bad happens. We may want to improve this someday though.
+		 *
+		 * Don't claim that dropped columns are changed though.
+		 */
+		for (int i = 0; i < desc->natts; i++)
+		{
+			CompactAttribute *attr = TupleDescCompactAttr(desc, i);
+
+			if (attr->attisdropped)
+				continue;
+			updatedCols = bms_add_member(updatedCols,
+										 i + 1 - FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber);
+		}
+
+		/* install updatedCols in the right place */
+		perminfo = getRTEPermissionInfo(perminfos, rte);
+		perminfo->updatedCols = updatedCols;
+
+		/* finally we can initialize the range table proper */
+		ExecInitRangeTable(chgcxt->cc_estate, list_make1(rte), perminfos,
+						   bms_make_singleton(1));
+	}
+
+	/* Set up our ResultRelInfo to use for index updates */
+	chgcxt->cc_rri = makeNode(ResultRelInfo);
+	InitResultRelInfo(chgcxt->cc_rri, relation, 1, NULL, 0);
 	ExecOpenIndices(chgcxt->cc_rri, false);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.47.3


--pi6rmivyoaehyqn6--





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