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[PATCH v44 07/10] Split cluster.h to create repack_internal.h
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* [PATCH v44 07/10] Split cluster.h to create repack_internal.h
@ 2026-03-24 14:09 Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
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From: Álvaro Herrera @ 2026-03-24 14:09 UTC (permalink / raw)

Most of the details of concurrent repack are only needed by
pgoutput_repack; and they have a nasty effect on headers included by
cluster.h (used by several high-profile places), so isolate that for
cleanliness.

Also, change_useless_for_repack() is better declared in decode.h.
---
 src/backend/commands/cluster.c                | 128 ++++++++++--------
 src/backend/postmaster/bgworker.c             |   2 +-
 .../pgoutput_repack/pgoutput_repack.c         |  13 +-
 src/include/commands/cluster.h                |  57 +-------
 src/include/commands/repack_internal.h        |  59 ++++++++
 src/include/replication/decode.h              |   4 +
 6 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/include/commands/repack_internal.h

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/cluster.c b/src/backend/commands/cluster.c
index 75556cbdafb..2c3058ba10d 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/cluster.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/cluster.c
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
 #include "commands/cluster.h"
 #include "commands/defrem.h"
 #include "commands/progress.h"
+#include "commands/repack_internal.h"
 #include "commands/tablecmds.h"
 #include "commands/vacuum.h"
 #include "executor/executor.h"
@@ -205,17 +206,11 @@ typedef struct DecodingWorkerShared
 	char		error_queue[FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER];
 } DecodingWorkerShared;
 
-/*
- * Generate worker's output file name. If relations of the same 'relid' happen
- * to be processed at the same time, they must be from different databases and
- * therefore different backends must be involved. (PID is already present in
- * the fileset name.)
- */
-static inline void
-DecodingWorkerFileName(char *fname, Oid relid, uint32 seq)
-{
-	snprintf(fname, MAXPGPATH, "%u-%u", relid, seq);
-}
+/* Is this process a REPACK worker? */
+static bool is_repack_worker = false;
+
+static pid_t backend_pid;
+static ProcNumber backend_proc_number;
 
 /*
  * Backend-local information to control the decoding worker.
@@ -241,6 +236,7 @@ static DecodingWorker *decoding_worker = NULL;
  */
 volatile sig_atomic_t RepackMessagePending = false;
 
+static LOCKMODE RepackLockLevel(bool concurrent);
 static bool cluster_rel_recheck(RepackCommand cmd, Relation OldHeap,
 								Oid indexOid, Oid userid, LOCKMODE lmode,
 								int options);
@@ -298,12 +294,16 @@ static Relation process_single_relation(RepackStmt *stmt,
 										ClusterParams *params);
 static Oid	determine_clustered_index(Relation rel, bool usingindex,
 									  const char *indexname);
-static void start_decoding_worker(Oid relid);
-static void stop_decoding_worker(void);
+
+static void start_repack_decoding_worker(Oid relid);
+static void stop_repack_decoding_worker(void);
 static void repack_worker_internal(dsm_segment *seg);
 static void export_initial_snapshot(Snapshot snapshot,
 									DecodingWorkerShared *shared);
 static Snapshot get_initial_snapshot(DecodingWorker *worker);
+extern bool am_decoding_for_repack(void);
+static void DecodingWorkerFileName(char *fname, Oid relid, uint32 seq);
+
 static void ProcessRepackMessage(StringInfo msg);
 static const char *RepackCommandAsString(RepackCommand cmd);
 
@@ -369,17 +369,8 @@ ExecRepack(ParseState *pstate, RepackStmt *stmt, bool isTopLevel)
 					parser_errposition(pstate, opt->location));
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Determine the lock mode expected by cluster_rel().
-	 *
-	 * In the exclusive case, we obtain AccessExclusiveLock right away to
-	 * avoid lock-upgrade hazard in the single-transaction case. In the
-	 * CONCURRENTLY case, the AccessExclusiveLock will only be used at the end
-	 * of processing, supposedly for very short time. Until then, we'll have
-	 * to unlock the relation temporarily, so there's no lock-upgrade hazard.
-	 */
-	lockmode = (params.options & CLUOPT_CONCURRENT) == 0 ?
-		AccessExclusiveLock : ShareUpdateExclusiveLock;
+	/* Determine the lock mode to use. */
+	lockmode = RepackLockLevel((params.options & CLUOPT_CONCURRENT) != 0);
 
 	/*
 	 * If a single relation is specified, process it and we're done ... unless
@@ -434,6 +425,12 @@ ExecRepack(ParseState *pstate, RepackStmt *stmt, bool isTopLevel)
 										   "Repack",
 										   ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_SIZES);
 
+	/*
+	 * Since we open a new transaction for each relation, we have to check
+	 * that the relation still is what we think it is.
+	 *
+	 * In single-transaction CLUSTER, we don't need the overhead.
+	 */
 	params.options |= CLUOPT_RECHECK;
 
 	/*
@@ -544,6 +541,22 @@ ExecRepack(ParseState *pstate, RepackStmt *stmt, bool isTopLevel)
 	MemoryContextDelete(repack_context);
 }
 
+/*
+ * In the non-concurrent case, we obtain AccessExclusiveLock throughout the
+ * operation to avoid any lock-upgrade hazards.  In the concurrent case, we
+ * grab ShareUpdateExclusiveLock (jsut like VACUUM) for most of the
+ * processing and only acquire AccessExclusiveLock at the end, to swap the
+ * relation -- supposedly for a short time.
+ */
+static LOCKMODE
+RepackLockLevel(bool concurrent)
+{
+	if (concurrent)
+		return ShareUpdateExclusiveLock;
+	else
+		return AccessExclusiveLock;
+}
+
 /*
  * cluster_rel
  *
@@ -583,25 +596,22 @@ cluster_rel(RepackCommand cmd, Relation OldHeap, Oid indexOid,
 	bool		concurrent = ((params->options & CLUOPT_CONCURRENT) != 0);
 	Oid			ident_idx = InvalidOid;
 
-	/*
-	 * The lock mode is AccessExclusiveLock for normal processing and
-	 * ShareUpdateExclusiveLock for concurrent processing (so that SELECT,
-	 * INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE commands work, but cluster_rel() cannot be
-	 * called concurrently for the same relation).
-	 */
-	lmode = !concurrent ? AccessExclusiveLock : ShareUpdateExclusiveLock;
+	/* Determine the lock mode to use. */
+	lmode = RepackLockLevel(concurrent);
 
-	/* There are specific requirements on concurrent processing. */
+	/*
+	 * Check some preconditions in the concurrent case.  This also obtains the
+	 * replica index OID.
+	 */
 	if (concurrent)
 	{
 		/*
-		 * Make sure we have no XID assigned, otherwise call of
-		 * repack_setup_logical_decoding() can cause a deadlock.
+		 * Make sure we're not in a transaction block.
 		 *
-		 * The existence of transaction block actually does not imply that XID
-		 * was already assigned, but it very likely is. We might want to check
-		 * the result of GetCurrentTransactionIdIfAny() instead, but that
-		 * would be less clear from user's perspective.
+		 * The reason is that repack_setup_logical_decoding() could deadlock
+		 * if there's an XID already assigned.  It would be possible to run in
+		 * a transaction block if we had no XID, but this restriction is
+		 * simpler for users to understand and we don't lose anything.
 		 */
 		PreventInTransactionBlock(isTopLevel, "REPACK (CONCURRENTLY)");
 
@@ -626,15 +636,11 @@ cluster_rel(RepackCommand cmd, Relation OldHeap, Oid indexOid,
 	RestrictSearchPath();
 
 	/*
-	 * Since we may open a new transaction for each relation, we have to check
-	 * that the relation still is what we think it is.
+	 * Recheck that the relation is still what it was when we started.
 	 *
-	 * If this is a single-transaction CLUSTER, we can skip these tests. We
-	 * *must* skip the one on indisclustered since it would reject an attempt
-	 * to cluster a not-previously-clustered index.
-	 *
-	 * XXX move [some of] these comments to where the RECHECK flag is
-	 * determined?
+	 * Note that it's critical to skip this in single-relation CLUSTER;
+	 * otherwise, we would reject an attempt to cluster using a
+	 * not-previously-clustered index.
 	 */
 	if (recheck &&
 		!cluster_rel_recheck(cmd, OldHeap, indexOid, save_userid,
@@ -754,7 +760,7 @@ cluster_rel(RepackCommand cmd, Relation OldHeap, Oid indexOid,
 			 * However it still seems a good practice to make sure that the
 			 * worker never survives the REPACK command.
 			 */
-			stop_decoding_worker();
+			stop_repack_decoding_worker();
 		}
 	}
 	PG_END_TRY();
@@ -1093,7 +1099,7 @@ rebuild_relation(Relation OldHeap, Relation index, bool verbose,
 		 * clustering index) and checking again if it's still eligible for
 		 * REPACK CONCURRENTLY.
 		 */
-		start_decoding_worker(tableOid);
+		start_repack_decoding_worker(tableOid);
 
 		/*
 		 * Wait until the worker has the initial snapshot and retrieve it.
@@ -2538,7 +2544,6 @@ RepackCommandAsString(RepackCommand cmd)
 	return "???";				/* keep compiler quiet */
 }
 
-
 /*
  * Is this backend performing logical decoding on behalf of REPACK
  * (CONCURRENTLY) ?
@@ -3688,7 +3693,7 @@ build_new_indexes(Relation NewHeap, Relation OldHeap, List *OldIndexes)
  * contents to a new table.
  */
 static void
-start_decoding_worker(Oid relid)
+start_repack_decoding_worker(Oid relid)
 {
 	Size		size;
 	dsm_segment *seg;
@@ -3779,7 +3784,7 @@ start_decoding_worker(Oid relid)
  * we need to stop it explicitly at least on ERROR in the launching backend.
  */
 static void
-stop_decoding_worker(void)
+stop_repack_decoding_worker(void)
 {
 	BgwHandleStatus status;
 
@@ -3817,12 +3822,6 @@ stop_decoding_worker(void)
 	decoding_worker = NULL;
 }
 
-/* Is this process a REPACK worker? */
-static bool is_repack_worker = false;
-
-static pid_t backend_pid;
-static ProcNumber backend_proc_number;
-
 /*
  * See ParallelWorkerShutdown for details.
  */
@@ -3869,7 +3868,7 @@ RepackWorkerMain(Datum main_arg)
 
 	/*
 	 * Join locking group - see the comments around the call of
-	 * start_decoding_worker().
+	 * start_repack_decoding_worker().
 	 */
 	if (!BecomeLockGroupMember(shared->backend_proc, backend_pid))
 		/* The leader is not running anymore. */
@@ -4039,6 +4038,18 @@ get_initial_snapshot(DecodingWorker *worker)
 	return snapshot;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Generate worker's output file name. If relations of the same 'relid' happen
+ * to be processed at the same time, they must be from different databases and
+ * therefore different backends must be involved. (PID is already present in
+ * the fileset name.)
+ */
+static void
+DecodingWorkerFileName(char *fname, Oid relid, uint32 seq)
+{
+	snprintf(fname, MAXPGPATH, "%u-%u", relid, seq);
+}
+
 bool
 IsRepackWorker(void)
 {
@@ -4067,7 +4078,6 @@ void
 ProcessRepackMessages(void)
 {
 	MemoryContext oldcontext;
-
 	static MemoryContext hpm_context = NULL;
 
 	/*
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/bgworker.c b/src/backend/postmaster/bgworker.c
index f8a8d1681e9..9e876d55e27 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/bgworker.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/bgworker.c
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 #include "postgres.h"
 
 #include "access/parallel.h"
-#include "commands/cluster.h"
+#include "commands/repack_internal.h"
 #include "libpq/pqsignal.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "pgstat.h"
diff --git a/src/backend/replication/pgoutput_repack/pgoutput_repack.c b/src/backend/replication/pgoutput_repack/pgoutput_repack.c
index 032fbd0e5b0..cc9ce615b18 100644
--- a/src/backend/replication/pgoutput_repack/pgoutput_repack.c
+++ b/src/backend/replication/pgoutput_repack/pgoutput_repack.c
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 #include "postgres.h"
 
 #include "access/detoast.h"
-#include "commands/cluster.h"
+#include "commands/repack_internal.h"
 #include "replication/snapbuild.h"
 #include "utils/memutils.h"
 
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ repack_store_change(LogicalDecodingContext *ctx, Relation relation,
 					ConcurrentChangeKind kind, HeapTuple tuple)
 {
 	RepackDecodingState *dstate;
-	MemoryContext	oldcxt;
+	MemoryContext oldcxt;
 	BufFile    *file;
 	List	   *attrs_ext = NIL;
 	int			natt_ext;
@@ -226,7 +226,10 @@ repack_store_change(LogicalDecodingContext *ctx, Relation relation,
 
 			slot_getsomeattrs(slot, i + 1);
 
-			/* This is a non-null varlena datum, but we only care if it's out-of-line */
+			/*
+			 * This is a non-null varlena datum, but we only care if it's
+			 * out-of-line
+			 */
 			varlen = (varlena *) DatumGetPointer(slot->tts_values[i]);
 			if (!VARATT_IS_EXTERNAL(varlen))
 				continue;
@@ -244,8 +247,8 @@ repack_store_change(LogicalDecodingContext *ctx, Relation relation,
 				 * attributes (those actually should never appear on disk), so
 				 * only TOASTed attribute can be seen here.
 				 *
-				 * FIXME in what circumstances can an ONDISK attr appear?
-				 * Why aren't these written separately?
+				 * FIXME in what circumstances can an ONDISK attr appear? Why
+				 * aren't these written separately?
 				 */
 				Assert(VARATT_IS_EXTERNAL_ONDISK(varlen));
 			}
diff --git a/src/include/commands/cluster.h b/src/include/commands/cluster.h
index 1c0ac3ab4f5..1528d34fa42 100644
--- a/src/include/commands/cluster.h
+++ b/src/include/commands/cluster.h
@@ -13,17 +13,12 @@
 #ifndef CLUSTER_H
 #define CLUSTER_H
 
-#include "nodes/execnodes.h"
+#include <signal.h>
+
 #include "nodes/parsenodes.h"
 #include "parser/parse_node.h"
-#include "replication/decode.h"
-#include "postmaster/bgworker.h"
-#include "replication/logical.h"
-#include "storage/buffile.h"
 #include "storage/lockdefs.h"
-#include "storage/shm_mq.h"
 #include "utils/relcache.h"
-#include "utils/resowner.h"
 
 
 /* flag bits for ClusterParams->options */
@@ -34,55 +29,14 @@
 #define CLUOPT_ANALYZE 0x08		/* do an ANALYZE */
 #define CLUOPT_CONCURRENT 0x10	/* allow concurrent data changes */
 
-
 /* options for CLUSTER */
 typedef struct ClusterParams
 {
 	bits32		options;		/* bitmask of CLUOPT_* */
 } ClusterParams;
 
-
-/*
- * The following definitions are used by REPACK CONCURRENTLY.
- */
-
-/*
- * Stored as a single byte in the output file.
- */
-#define		CHANGE_INSERT		'i'
-#define		CHANGE_UPDATE_OLD	'u'
-#define		CHANGE_UPDATE_NEW	'U'
-#define		CHANGE_DELETE		'd'
-typedef char ConcurrentChangeKind;
-
-/*
- * Logical decoding state.
- *
- * The output plugin uses it to store the data changes that it decodes from
- * WAL while the table contents is being copied to a new storage.
- */
-typedef struct RepackDecodingState
-{
-#ifdef	USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
-	/* The relation whose changes we're decoding. */
-	Oid			relid;
-#endif
-
-	/* Per-change memory context. */
-	MemoryContext	change_cxt;
-
-	/* A tuple slot used to pass tuples back and forth */
-	TupleTableSlot	*slot;
-
-	/* The current output file. */
-	BufFile    *file;
-} RepackDecodingState;
-
 extern PGDLLIMPORT volatile sig_atomic_t RepackMessagePending;
 
-extern bool IsRepackWorker(void);
-extern void HandleRepackMessageInterrupt(void);
-extern void ProcessRepackMessages(void);
 
 extern void ExecRepack(ParseState *pstate, RepackStmt *stmt, bool isTopLevel);
 
@@ -104,8 +58,9 @@ extern void finish_heap_swap(Oid OIDOldHeap, Oid OIDNewHeap,
 							 MultiXactId cutoffMulti,
 							 char newrelpersistence);
 
-extern bool am_decoding_for_repack(void);
-extern bool change_useless_for_repack(XLogRecordBuffer *buf);
+extern bool IsRepackWorker(void);
+extern void HandleRepackMessageInterrupt(void);
+extern void ProcessRepackMessages(void);
+
 
-extern void RepackWorkerMain(Datum main_arg);
 #endif							/* CLUSTER_H */
diff --git a/src/include/commands/repack_internal.h b/src/include/commands/repack_internal.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f90c973f5a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/include/commands/repack_internal.h
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *
+ * repack_internal.h
+ *	  header for REPACK internals
+ *
+ * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2026, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
+ * Portions Copyright (c) 1994-5, Regents of the University of California
+ *
+ * src/include/commands/repack_internal.h
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+#ifndef REPACK_INTERNAL_H
+#define REPACK_INTERNAL_H
+
+#include "nodes/execnodes.h"
+#include "replication/decode.h"
+#include "postmaster/bgworker.h"
+#include "replication/logical.h"
+#include "storage/buffile.h"
+#include "storage/shm_mq.h"
+#include "utils/resowner.h"
+
+/*
+ * Stored as a single byte in the output file.
+ */
+#define		CHANGE_INSERT		'i'
+#define		CHANGE_UPDATE_OLD	'u'
+#define		CHANGE_UPDATE_NEW	'U'
+#define		CHANGE_DELETE		'd'
+typedef char ConcurrentChangeKind;
+
+/*
+ * Logical decoding state.
+ *
+ * The output plugin uses it to store the data changes that it decodes from
+ * WAL while the table contents is being copied to a new storage.
+ */
+typedef struct RepackDecodingState
+{
+#ifdef	USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
+	/* The relation whose changes we're decoding. */
+	Oid			relid;
+#endif
+
+	/* Per-change memory context. */
+	MemoryContext change_cxt;
+
+	/* A tuple slot used to pass tuples back and forth */
+	TupleTableSlot *slot;
+
+	/* The current output file. */
+	BufFile    *file;
+} RepackDecodingState;
+
+
+extern void RepackWorkerMain(Datum main_arg);
+
+#endif							/* REPACK_INTERNAL_H */
diff --git a/src/include/replication/decode.h b/src/include/replication/decode.h
index 49f00fc48b8..02b5393474c 100644
--- a/src/include/replication/decode.h
+++ b/src/include/replication/decode.h
@@ -31,4 +31,8 @@ extern void logicalmsg_decode(LogicalDecodingContext *ctx, XLogRecordBuffer *buf
 extern void LogicalDecodingProcessRecord(LogicalDecodingContext *ctx,
 										 XLogReaderState *record);
 
+/* in commands/cluster.c */
+extern bool change_useless_for_repack(XLogRecordBuffer *buf);
+
+
 #endif
-- 
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* [PATCH 7/8] Decouple updating of freezing information from swap_relation_files().
@ 2026-06-16 11:54 Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 604+ messages in thread

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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