Re: Adding REPACK [concurrently]

From: Antonin Houska <ah(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla <srinath2133(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Mihail Nikalayeu <mihailnikalayeu(at)gmail(dot)com>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Adding REPACK [concurrently]
Date: 2026-04-05 16:30:41
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:

> On 2026-Apr-05, Antonin Houska wrote:
>
> > ok, maybe just skip the whole cleanup in that special case.
>
> Hmm, should we make this test only in the db_specific case? Doing it
> unconditionally makes me a bit nervous (maybe because I don't fully
> understand historic snapshot building).

I thought about adding Assert(db_specific) in front of the new return
statement. So what you suggest makes sense to me.

As far as I understand, the xl_running_xacts record is not directly involved
in the snapshot build. Rather, the list of XIDs for snapshots is created and
updated by processing COMMIT and ABORT records.

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Antonin Houska
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