On 2026-Sep-28, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> Lock the TOAST table early in REPACK (CONCURRENTLY)
>
> The decoding worker records the relfilenumber of the TOAST table when it
> starts, and skips changes stored under any other one, but the TOAST
> table was not locked until the data copy began. If VACUUM FULL rewrote
> it while the worker was starting, concurrent updates of TOASTed columns
> were silently lost.
Oops, I used CheckRelationOidLockedByMe() assuming it does what its name
implies, which it doesn't. Will fix.
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