Re: speed up a logical replica setup

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2022-03-23T18:50:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. pg_createsubscriber: Remove obsolete comment

  2. pg_createsubscriber: Fix an unpredictable recovery wait time.

  3. Fix unstable test in 040_pg_createsubscriber.

  4. Fix the testcase introduced in commit 81d20fbf7a.

  5. Further weaken new pg_createsubscriber test on Windows.

  6. Temporarily(?) weaken new pg_createsubscriber test on Windows.

  7. Make pg_createsubscriber warn if publisher has two-phase commit enabled.

  8. Make pg_createsubscriber more wary about quoting connection parameters.

  9. pg_createsubscriber: Remove failover replication slots on subscriber

  10. pg_createsubscriber: Remove replication slot check on primary

  11. pg_createsubscriber: Only --recovery-timeout controls the end of recovery process

  12. pg_createsubscriber: creates a new logical replica from a standby server

  13. Add some const decorations

  14. Add option force_initdb to PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster:init()

  15. Remove MSVC scripts

On 18.03.22 23:34, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 3/15/22 09:51, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 21.02.22 13:09, Euler Taveira wrote:
>>> A new tool called pg_subscriber does this conversion and is tightly
>>> integrated
>>> with Postgres.
>>
>> Are we comfortable with the name pg_subscriber?  It seems too general.
>> Are we planning other subscriber-related operations in the future?  If
>> so, we should at least make this one use a --create option or
>> something like that.
> 
> 
> Not really sold on the name (and I didn't much like the name
> pglogical_create_subscriber either, although it's a cool facility and
> I'm happy to see us adopting something like it).
> 
> ISTM we should have a name that conveys that we are *converting* a
> replica or equivalent to a subscriber.

The pglogical tool includes the pg_basebackup run, so it actually 
"creates" the subscriber from scratch.  Whether this tool is also doing 
that is still being discussed.