Re: Adding REPACK [concurrently]

On 2026-Feb-25, Antonin Houska wrote:

> > Hmm, so on the apply side when reading the file, we would first reach
> > each toast attribute value, which we know to insert directly to the
> > toast table (keeping track of each individually toast pointer as we do
> > so); then we reach the heap tuple itself, we [... somehow ...] interpret
> > these external indirect toast pointers and substitute the toast pointers
> > that we created. So we never have to construct the entire tuple, or
> > indeed do anything else with the toasted values other than insert them
> > into the toast table.
>
> Yes, that's what I mean.

Makes sense. Would you be able to try and implement that?

> The problem I see here is that for UPDATE you need the old tuple to determine
> if its TOAST value should be deleted or if the new tuple should reuse it -
> this is how I understand toast_tuple_init(). So the worker would have to store
> all the changes somewhere temporarily until it can fully apply the changes
> (i.e. until the initial copy and index build is complete).

Ah, you're right, that won't work.

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