On 2026-May-25, Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu) wrote:
> After listening to the REPACK talk at pgconf.dev this year, I understand that
> WAL accumulation during REPACK CONCURRENTLY is not intended behavior. I think we
> can consider fixing this in the current release. Attached is the rebased
> patch, with comments adjusted based on Chao Li's comments.
You're right, this is a thinko. I'll look at your patch hoping to get
it pushed shortly. I wonder if we should add a TAP test to verify that
WAL files are actually removed? Sounds a bit excessive TBH, but maybe
it isn't really.
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