We are happy to announce the release of pg_repack 1.1.8.
This is the first release of pg_repack, a fork of pg_reorg. The reason
of the fork is to revive the development of pg_reorg, which has
stagnated since the release 1.1.7 in August 2011. pg_repack addresses
specifically the missing features planned for pg_reorg 1.1.8 and its
known bugs. The main changes from pg_reorg 1.1.7 are:
* Added support for PostgreSQL 9.2.
* Added support for CREATE EXTENSION on PostgreSQL 9.1 and following.
* Give user feedback while waiting for transactions to finish (pg_reorg
issue #5).
* Bugfix: Allow running on newly promoted streaming replication slaves
(pg_reorg issue #1).
* Bugfix: Fix interaction between pg_repack and Slony 2.0/2.1 (pg_reorg
issue #4)
* Bugfix: Properly escape column names (pg_reorg issue #6).
* Bugfix: Avoid recreating invalid indexes, or choosing them as key
(pg_reorg issue #9).
* Bugfix: Never choose a partial index as primary key (pg_reorg issue #22).
In an effort to make the transition for existing pg_reorg users
simple, the pg_repack 1.1.8 release is a drop-in replacement for
pg_reorg, only addressing the pg_reorg 1.1.7 bugs and shortcomings. We
are also developing new features to be released in an upcoming 1.2
version. With the intent of causing the least trouble possible to
pg_reorg users, we are not going to set up a different mailing list or
discussion group, but we wish to coordinate the pg_repack development
using the current reorg-general mailing list.
pg_repack may be an interim solution, should the pg_reorg project come
back to life. In the meantime, we thank the original pg_reorg authors
for the quality code they have released to the community, wish them
good luck, and hope to collaborate further in the future.
Installation:
You can download the source package from the PGXN website at
<http://pgxn.org/dist/pg_repack/> and install it as explained in the
documentation at <http://reorg.github.com/pg_repack/#installation>.
Alternatively you can install pg_repack use the PGXN Client, running
"pgxn install pg_repack". Please check the PGXN Client
documentation for all the installation options at
<http://pgxnclient.projects.pgfoundry.org/usage.html#pgxn-install>.
References:
* Homepage: http://reorg.github.com/pg_repack
* Download: http://pgxn.org/dist/pg_repack/
* Development: https://github.com/reorg/pg_repack
* Mailing List: http://pgfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/reorg-general
