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Re: Minimal logical decoding on standbys

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan.pg@gmail.com>
Cc: tushar <tushar.ahuja@enterprisedb.com>, Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>, Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-05-23T15:59:01Z
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  1. Reduce the log level in 035_standby_logical_decoding.pl.

  2. 035_standby_logical_decoding: Add missing waits for replication

  3. For cascading replication, wake physical and logical walsenders separately

  4. Handle logical slot conflicts on standby

  5. Support invalidating replication slots due to horizon and wal_level

  6. Prevent use of invalidated logical slot in CreateDecodingContext()

  7. Replace replication slot's invalidated_at LSN with an enum

  8. Pass down table relation into more index relation functions

  9. Assert only valid flag bits are passed to visibilitymap_set()

  10. Remove unused _bt_delitems_delete() argument.

  11. Add xl_btree_delete optimization.

Hi,

On 2019-05-23 17:39:21 +0530, Amit Khandekar wrote:
> On Tue, 21 May 2019 at 21:49, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Yeah, I agree we should add such checks to minimize the possibility of
> reading logical records from a master that has insufficient wal_level.
> So to summarize :
> a. CheckLogicalDecodingRequirements() : Add Controlfile wal_level checks
> b. Call this function call in CreateInitDecodingContext() as well.
> c. While decoding XLOG_PARAMETER_CHANGE record, emit recovery conflict
> error if there is an existing logical slot.
> 
> This made me think more of the race conditions. For instance, in
> pg_create_logical_replication_slot(), just after
> CheckLogicalDecodingRequirements and before actually creating the
> slot, suppose concurrently Controlfile->wal_level is changed from
> logical to replica.  So suppose a new slot does get created. Later the
> slot is read, so in pg_logical_slot_get_changes_guts(),
> CheckLogicalDecodingRequirements() is called where it checks
> ControlFile->wal_level value. But just before it does that,
> ControlFile->wal_level concurrently changes back to logical, because
> of replay of another param-change record. So this logical reader will
> think that the wal_level is sufficient, and will proceed to read the
> records, but those records are *before* the wal_level change, so these
> records don't have logical data.

I don't think that's an actual problem, because there's no decoding
before the slot exists and CreateInitDecodingContext() has determined
the start LSN. And by that point the slot exists, slo
XLOG_PARAMETER_CHANGE replay can error out.

Greetings,

Andres Freund