Re: REPACK and naming

On 2025-Sep-17, David G. Johnston wrote:

> That changes logical aspects of a table and so would be done as part of
> alter table, IMO. “AT tbl Rearrange columns (names list) “

Yes.

> Concretely, maybe we should remove vacuum full from the vacuum command
> page, and just call it out as compatibility spelling of repack on its
> page.  Maybe do the same for cluster (I haven’t dived into the new feature
> enough to confidently describe all this yet though).

I think we should list VACUUM FULL as deprecated, document that feature
in the REPACK documentation page, and leave VACUUM FULL in working state
so as not to break existing scripts.  Same for CLUSTER.

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