Re: PATCH: logical_work_mem and logical streaming of large in-progress transactions

Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Erikjan Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-12-23T20:06:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. Tighten the concurrent abort check during decoding.

  2. Improve hash_create()'s API for some added robustness.

  3. Use HASH_BLOBS for xidhash.

  4. Fix initialization of RelationSyncEntry for streaming transactions.

  5. Remove unused function declaration in logicalproto.h.

  6. Add additional tests to test streaming of in-progress transactions.

  7. Fix inline marking introduced in commit 464824323e.

  8. Add support for streaming to built-in logical replication.

  9. Fix the SharedFileSetUnregister API.

  10. Fix comment in procarray.c

  11. Suppress compiler warning in non-cassert builds.

  12. Extend the BufFile interface.

  13. Mark a few logical decoding related variables with PGDLLIMPORT.

  14. Implement streaming mode in ReorderBuffer.

  15. Extend the logical decoding output plugin API with stream methods.

  16. WAL Log invalidations at command end with wal_level=logical.

  17. Immediately WAL-log subtransaction and top-level XID association.

  18. Allow logical replication to transfer data in binary format.

  19. Only superuser can set sslcert/sslkey in postgres_fdw user mappings

  20. Track statistics for spilling of changes from ReorderBuffer.

  21. Add logical_decoding_work_mem to limit ReorderBuffer memory usage.

  22. logical decoding: process ASSIGNMENT during snapshot build

  23. Emit invalidations to standby for transactions without xid.

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On 12/23/2017 03:03 PM, Erikjan Rijkers wrote:
> On 2017-12-23 05:57, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Attached is a patch series that implements two features to the logical
>> replication - ability to define a memory limit for the reorderbuffer
>> (responsible for building the decoded transactions), and ability to
>> stream large in-progress transactions (exceeding the memory limit).
>>
> 
> logical replication of 2 instances is OK but 3 and up fail with:
> 
> TRAP: FailedAssertion("!(last_lsn < change->lsn)", File:
> "reorderbuffer.c", Line: 1773)
> 
> I can cobble up a script but I hope you have enough from the assertion
> to see what's going wrong...

The assertion says that the iterator produces changes in order that does
not correlate with LSN. But I have a hard time understanding how that
could happen, particularly because according to the line number this
happens in ReorderBufferCommit(), i.e. the current (non-streaming) case.

So instructions to reproduce the issue would be very helpful.

Attached is v2 of the patch series, fixing two bugs I discovered today.
I don't think any of these is related to your issue, though.

regards

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