On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 5:33 AM Chao Li <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The file header comment in repack.c briefly explains the workflow of 
> concurrent mode as:
>
> 1. Lock the table with ShareUpdateExclusiveLock
> 2. Do an initial copy as non-concurrent mode
> 3. While the initial copy is going on, accumulates concurrent changes to a 
> file
> 4. After the initial copy, read the file and re-apply the changes
> 5. Upgrade to AccessExclusiveLock and swap the relfilenodes
>
> When I read the comment, I got confused at step 4. While that re-apply pass 
> is running, concurrent changes can still occur, so what happens to those 
> changes?
>
> After reading the code, I see that there is actually an extra step after 
> upgrading to AccessExclusiveLock to process the remaining changes.
>
> I am afraid other readers may have the same confusion, so I am proposing this 
> small patch to make the file header comment a bit clearer.

LGTM, so +1

-J.


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