Re: REPACK (ANALYZE) within transaction block segfaults

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de> wrote:

> On 2026-Sep-02, Fujii Masao wrote:
>
> > + * that's just consistent with VACUUM (FULL, ANALYZE), which is a
> > + * synonym for REPACK (ANALYZE).
> >
> > Is VACUUM (FULL, ANALYZE) really a synonym for REPACK (ANALYZE)?
>
> That's the intent, at least. If there are things that work differently,
> I would strive to change them so that they do work the same. However,
> some such changes might be too invasive for pg19, but I would still see
> about changing those in pg20.
>
> Now, maybe there are things about VACUUM FULL ANALYZE that we don't like
> (perhaps, for instance, they exist solely because of even older
> backwards compatibility concerns) that we would prefer not to have in
> REPACK. I don't know if anything of that sort exists, but if so, I
> would propose to seek decisions for each thing individually.

Maybe the question was about the wording - "synonym" might indicate that both
commands execute the same code. Perhaps the comment should rather say that
REPACK (ANALYZE) is (intended to be) a replacement of VACUUM (FULL, ANALYZE).

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