v3-0002-Track-inactive-replication-slot-information.patch

From cc5ff196a3861a3e4c27b6d5925f2a09530de689 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:15:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/4] Track inactive replication slot information

Currently postgres doesn't track metrics like the time at which
the slot became inactive, and the total number of times the slot
became inactive in its lifetime. This commit adds two new metrics
inactive_at of type timestamptz and inactive_count of type numeric
to ReplicationSlotPersistentData. Whenever a slot becomes
inactive, the current timestamp and inactive count are persisted
to disk.

These metrics are useful in the following ways:

- To improve replication slot monitoring tools. For instance, one
can build a monitoring tool that signals a) when replication slots
is lying inactive for a day or so using inactive_at metric,
b) when a replication slot is becoming inactive too frequently
using inactive_at metric.

- To implement timeout-based inactive replication slot management
capability in postgres.

Increases SLOT_VERSION due to the added two new metrics.
---
 doc/src/sgml/system-views.sgml       | 20 +++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |  4 ++-
 src/backend/replication/slot.c       | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 src/backend/replication/slotfuncs.c  | 15 ++++++++-
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |  6 ++--
 src/include/replication/slot.h       |  6 ++++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |  6 ++--
 7 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/system-views.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/system-views.sgml
index c61312793c..75f99f4ca0 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/system-views.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/system-views.sgml
@@ -2566,6 +2566,26 @@ SELECT * FROM pg_locks pl LEFT JOIN pg_prepared_xacts ppx
        Always false for physical slots.
       </para></entry>
      </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>inactive_at</structfield> <type>timestamptz</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        The time at which the slot became inactive.
+        <literal>NULL</literal> if the slot is currently actively being
+        used.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>inactive_count</structfield> <type>numeric</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        The total number of times the slot became inactive in its lifetime.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
     </tbody>
    </tgroup>
   </table>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index 9d401003e8..eba97e8494 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -1024,7 +1024,9 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_replication_slots AS
             L.safe_wal_size,
             L.two_phase,
             L.invalidation_reason,
-            L.failover
+            L.failover,
+            L.inactive_at,
+            L.inactive_count
     FROM pg_get_replication_slots() AS L
             LEFT JOIN pg_database D ON (L.datoid = D.oid);
 
diff --git a/src/backend/replication/slot.c b/src/backend/replication/slot.c
index 110cb59783..9662b7f70d 100644
--- a/src/backend/replication/slot.c
+++ b/src/backend/replication/slot.c
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ typedef struct ReplicationSlotOnDisk
 	sizeof(ReplicationSlotOnDisk) - ReplicationSlotOnDiskConstantSize
 
 #define SLOT_MAGIC		0x1051CA1	/* format identifier */
-#define SLOT_VERSION	4		/* version for new files */
+#define SLOT_VERSION	5		/* version for new files */
 
 /* Control array for replication slot management */
 ReplicationSlotCtlData *ReplicationSlotCtl = NULL;
@@ -315,6 +315,8 @@ ReplicationSlotCreate(const char *name, bool db_specific,
 	slot->data.two_phase = two_phase;
 	slot->data.two_phase_at = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
 	slot->data.failover = failover;
+	slot->data.inactive_at = 0;
+	slot->data.inactive_count = 0;
 
 	/* and then data only present in shared memory */
 	slot->just_dirtied = false;
@@ -541,6 +543,17 @@ retry:
 
 	if (am_walsender)
 	{
+		if (s->data.persistency == RS_PERSISTENT)
+		{
+			SpinLockAcquire(&s->mutex);
+			s->data.inactive_at = 0;
+			SpinLockRelease(&s->mutex);
+
+			/* Write this slot to disk */
+			ReplicationSlotMarkDirty();
+			ReplicationSlotSave();
+		}
+
 		ereport(log_replication_commands ? LOG : DEBUG1,
 				SlotIsLogical(s)
 				? errmsg("acquired logical replication slot \"%s\"",
@@ -608,16 +621,27 @@ ReplicationSlotRelease(void)
 		ConditionVariableBroadcast(&slot->active_cv);
 	}
 
-	MyReplicationSlot = NULL;
-
-	/* might not have been set when we've been a plain slot */
-	LWLockAcquire(ProcArrayLock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);
-	MyProc->statusFlags &= ~PROC_IN_LOGICAL_DECODING;
-	ProcGlobal->statusFlags[MyProc->pgxactoff] = MyProc->statusFlags;
-	LWLockRelease(ProcArrayLock);
-
 	if (am_walsender)
 	{
+		if (slot->data.persistency == RS_PERSISTENT)
+		{
+			SpinLockAcquire(&slot->mutex);
+			slot->data.inactive_at = GetCurrentTimestamp();
+
+			/*
+			 * XXX: Can inactive_count of type uint64 ever overflow? It takes
+			 * about a half-billion years for inactive_count to overflow even
+			 * if slot becomes inactive for every 1 millisecond. So, using
+			 * pg_add_u64_overflow might be an overkill.
+			 */
+			slot->data.inactive_count++;
+			SpinLockRelease(&slot->mutex);
+
+			/* Write this slot to disk */
+			ReplicationSlotMarkDirty();
+			ReplicationSlotSave();
+		}
+
 		ereport(log_replication_commands ? LOG : DEBUG1,
 				is_logical
 				? errmsg("released logical replication slot \"%s\"",
@@ -627,6 +651,14 @@ ReplicationSlotRelease(void)
 
 		pfree(slotname);
 	}
+
+	MyReplicationSlot = NULL;
+
+	/* might not have been set when we've been a plain slot */
+	LWLockAcquire(ProcArrayLock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);
+	MyProc->statusFlags &= ~PROC_IN_LOGICAL_DECODING;
+	ProcGlobal->statusFlags[MyProc->pgxactoff] = MyProc->statusFlags;
+	LWLockRelease(ProcArrayLock);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/src/backend/replication/slotfuncs.c b/src/backend/replication/slotfuncs.c
index e53aeb37c9..3c53f4ac48 100644
--- a/src/backend/replication/slotfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/replication/slotfuncs.c
@@ -237,10 +237,11 @@ pg_drop_replication_slot(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 Datum
 pg_get_replication_slots(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 {
-#define PG_GET_REPLICATION_SLOTS_COLS 16
+#define PG_GET_REPLICATION_SLOTS_COLS 18
 	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
 	XLogRecPtr	currlsn;
 	int			slotno;
+	char		buf[256];
 
 	/*
 	 * We don't require any special permission to see this function's data
@@ -428,6 +429,18 @@ pg_get_replication_slots(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 
 		values[i++] = BoolGetDatum(slot_contents.data.failover);
 
+		if (slot_contents.data.inactive_at > 0)
+			values[i++] = TimestampTzGetDatum(slot_contents.data.inactive_at);
+		else
+			nulls[i++] = true;
+
+		/* Convert to numeric. */
+		snprintf(buf, sizeof buf, UINT64_FORMAT, slot_contents.data.inactive_count);
+		values[i++] = DirectFunctionCall3(numeric_in,
+										  CStringGetDatum(buf),
+										  ObjectIdGetDatum(0),
+										  Int32GetDatum(-1));
+
 		Assert(i == PG_GET_REPLICATION_SLOTS_COLS);
 
 		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc,
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index de1115baa0..52e9fc4971 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -11127,9 +11127,9 @@
   proname => 'pg_get_replication_slots', prorows => '10', proisstrict => 'f',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', prorettype => 'record',
   proargtypes => '',
-  proallargtypes => '{name,name,text,oid,bool,bool,int4,xid,xid,pg_lsn,pg_lsn,text,int8,bool,text,bool}',
-  proargmodes => '{o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
-  proargnames => '{slot_name,plugin,slot_type,datoid,temporary,active,active_pid,xmin,catalog_xmin,restart_lsn,confirmed_flush_lsn,wal_status,safe_wal_size,two_phase,invalidation_reason,failover}',
+  proallargtypes => '{name,name,text,oid,bool,bool,int4,xid,xid,pg_lsn,pg_lsn,text,int8,bool,text,bool,timestamptz,numeric}',
+  proargmodes => '{o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{slot_name,plugin,slot_type,datoid,temporary,active,active_pid,xmin,catalog_xmin,restart_lsn,confirmed_flush_lsn,wal_status,safe_wal_size,two_phase,invalidation_reason,failover,inactive_at,inactive_count}',
   prosrc => 'pg_get_replication_slots' },
 { oid => '3786', descr => 'set up a logical replication slot',
   proname => 'pg_create_logical_replication_slot', provolatile => 'v',
diff --git a/src/include/replication/slot.h b/src/include/replication/slot.h
index da4c776492..380dcc90ca 100644
--- a/src/include/replication/slot.h
+++ b/src/include/replication/slot.h
@@ -117,6 +117,12 @@ typedef struct ReplicationSlotPersistentData
 	 * for logical slots on the primary server.
 	 */
 	bool		failover;
+
+	/* When did this slot become inactive last time? */
+	TimestampTz inactive_at;
+
+	/* How many times the slot has been inactive? */
+	uint64		inactive_count;
 } ReplicationSlotPersistentData;
 
 /*
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 022f9bccb0..4a3cb182e6 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1474,8 +1474,10 @@ pg_replication_slots| SELECT l.slot_name,
     l.safe_wal_size,
     l.two_phase,
     l.invalidation_reason,
-    l.failover
-   FROM (pg_get_replication_slots() l(slot_name, plugin, slot_type, datoid, temporary, active, active_pid, xmin, catalog_xmin, restart_lsn, confirmed_flush_lsn, wal_status, safe_wal_size, two_phase, invalidation_reason, failover)
+    l.failover,
+    l.inactive_at,
+    l.inactive_count
+   FROM (pg_get_replication_slots() l(slot_name, plugin, slot_type, datoid, temporary, active, active_pid, xmin, catalog_xmin, restart_lsn, confirmed_flush_lsn, wal_status, safe_wal_size, two_phase, invalidation_reason, failover, inactive_at, inactive_count)
      LEFT JOIN pg_database d ON ((l.datoid = d.oid)));
 pg_roles| SELECT pg_authid.rolname,
     pg_authid.rolsuper,
-- 
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