We are happy to announce the release of pg_repack 1.2.0-beta1.
pg_repack is a PostgreSQL extension which lets you remove bloat from
tables and indexes, and optionally restore the physical order of
clustered indexes. Unlike CLUSTER and VACUUM FULL it works online,
without holding exclusive locks on the database objects during
processing.
pg_repack 1.2.0 provides new features over pg_reorg/pg_repack 1.1. The
most interesting are:
* online SET TABLESPACE to move tables and indexes across partitions
or disks without long interruptions;
* parallel index build to speed up the operation;
* the possibility to work on indexes only.
Documentation, a complete list of changes and further references are
available from the homepage at <http://reorg.github.com/pg_repack>.
pg_repack 1.2.0-beta1 is a testing package: it has already been
extensively tested, but feedback from a wider audience is welcome. If no
problem is found a final release is planned in the upcoming weeks.
Thank you everybody, especially Josh Kupershmidt, author of many of the
features in the new release and Beena Emerson for her relentless
testing.
-- Daniele
