Re: Adding REPACK [concurrently]

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 1, 2026 at 3:13 PM Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> wrote:
> >

> > Nevertheless, I'm not sure it's a good idea for snapbuild.c to handle special
> > cases like REPACK. Instead, I'm thinking if snapbuild.c can safely ignore XIDs
> > of backends connected to databases other than the one we're decoding.
> >
>
> What if such transactions have made changes in the global catalog?
> Even if that won't matter, I feel such a change would be quite
> fundamental to snapbuild machinery and changing at this point would be
> risky.

I had thought that catalog is usually needed only to retrieve the tuple
descriptor, but regression tests with some Assert() statements prove now that
shared catalogs can be accessed too. So that idea does not seem to be useful.

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