On Thu, Oct 08, 2026 at 02:34:50PM +0200, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On 2026-Oct-08, Radim Marek wrote: >> As a medium-heavy repack user over the last decade, I'd say this limit is >> acceptable for now. > > Agreed -- I don't think we need any localized hacking for this, > considering that we have a patch in the queue for 20 that will > completely remove the need for this. People that can't tolerate 105 > million rows concurrently updated during REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) can do > whatever they've been doing so far to cope with such a scenario. Maybe > they run pg_repack, or maybe they run VACUUM FULL, I don't really care. > (What I actually think is that such people don't actually exist.) > > IMO this is not a regression and we don't *need* to cope with it.
Okay. It sounds like we have carefully considered this behavior and deemed it acceptable for now, and I do not intend to press the issue any further. Thanks! -- nathan
