On 2026-Mar-16, Matthias van de Meent wrote: > On Mon, 16 Mar 2026 at 21:15, Antonin Houska <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Anyway (fortunately?), the concurrent use of slots by REPACK is limited > > because, during the initialization of logical decoding, the backend needs to > > wait for all the transactions having XID assigned to finish, and these > > include > > the already running REPACK commands. See SnapBuildWaitSnapshot() and callers > > if you're interested in details. > > Huh, so would you be able to run more than one Repack Concurrently in > the same database? ISTM that would not be possible, apart from > possibly a mechanism comparable to the SAFE_IN_IC flag (to not wait on > those backends). Yeah, this sounds kind of bad news ... -- Álvaro Herrera Breisgau, Deutschland — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "Los dioses no protegen a los insensatos. Éstos reciben protección de otros insensatos mejor dotados" (Luis Wu, Mundo Anillo)
