Re: Adding REPACK [concurrently]

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:

> I made a few changes from Antonin's original at [2].  First, I modified
> the grammar to support "REPACK [tab] USING INDEX" without specifying the
> index name.  With this change, all possibilities of the old commands are
> covered,

...

> Here's a list of existing commands, and how to write them in the current
> patch's proposal for REPACK:
> 
> -- re-clusters all tables that have a clustered index set
> CLUSTER                     -> REPACK USING INDEX
> 
> -- clusters the given table using the given index
> CLUSTER tab USING idx       -> REPACK tab USING INDEX idx
> 
> -- clusters this table using a clustered index; error if no index clustered
> CLUSTER tab                 -> REPACK tab USING INDEX
> 
> -- vacuum-full all tables
> VACUUM FULL                 -> REPACK
> 
> -- vacuum-full the specified table
> VACUUM FULL tab             -> REPACK tab
> 

Now that we want to cover the CLUSTER/VACUUM FULL completely, I've checked the
options of VACUUM FULL. I found two items not supported by REPACK (but also
not supported by by CLUSTER): ANALYZE and SKIP_DATABASE_STATS. Maybe just
let's mention that in the user documentation of REPACK?

(Besides that, VACUUM FULL accepts TRUNCATE and INDEX_CLEANUP options, but I
think these have no effect.)

-- 
Antonin Houska
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