On Mon, 16 Mar 2026 at 20:34, Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2026-Mar-16, Matthias van de Meent wrote: > > I agree it's not user-friendly, but that's the point of limiting > > permissions. Users can't install c-functions without SUPERUSER, > > because it can cause cluster instability and crashes. Users can't > > create slots without REPLICATION, because they'll be able to > > negatively impact the whole cluster's performance, and possibly, > > stability, when taking up replication slots that otherwise would be > > used for critical HA purposes. > > Well, as I said, these repack slots would be separate from the regular > ones for replication and available only for repack, so they would not > interfere with the count of slots used for replication, so the second > point is moot, isn't it?
Sorry, I misread your response as "if at all, then at least like this", instead of "let's do this alternative in this patch". But, yes, a pool of slots used exclusively by REPACK CONCURRENTLY would also solve the slot availability issue. Kind regards, Matthias van de Meent Databricks (https://www.databricks.com)
