On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2025-Sep-17, David G. Johnston wrote: > > > On Wednesday, September 17, 2025, David Rowley <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 18 Sept 2025 at 01:09, Robert Haas <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > RETABLE just isn't a word. The code sometimes calls this a REWRITE of > > > > a table, which would be reasonable. > > > > > > +1. I was reading this yesterday wondering why "REWRITE" didn't get a > > > mention. > > > > I'm not particularly excited about REWRITE, as it sounds a little bit > too generic, plus we already have the "query rewriter" which rewrites, > and I think it would be good that we stop overloading terms for > completely different things. > Agreed > > Rebuild has some prior art apparently, which makes it appealing. > > Can you cite that? I've seen "ALTER TABLE/INDEX REBUILD", but not > REBUILD as a standalone command. > > I was just skimming the list Mikhail provided. https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CADzfLwXjBvqQCuPOaMGe20a+ySTcqSpfvoGyZZmrMkJ=hbt...@mail.gmail.com It isn't standalone but the keyword REBUILD gets used versus our unlisted use of REPACK. But there isn't enough consistency/similarity for me to want to avoid repack altogether. David J.
