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

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-09-26T19:33:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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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.

On 2019-Sep-26, Tomas Vondra wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Attached is an updated patch series, rebased on current master. It does
> fix one memory accounting bug in ReorderBufferToastReplace (the code was
> not properly updating the amount of memory).

Cool.

Can we aim to get 0001 pushed during this commitfest, or is that a lost
cause?

The large new comment in reorderbuffer.c says that a transaction might
get spilled *or streamed*, but surely that second thing is not correct,
since before the subsequent patches it's not possible to stream
transactions that have not yet finished?

How certain are you about the approach to measure memory used by a
reorderbuffer transaction ... does it not cause a measurable performance
drop?  I wonder if it would make more sense to use a separate contexts
per transaction and use context-level accounting (per the patch Jeff
Davis posted elsewhere for hash joins ... though I see now that that
only works fot aset.c, not other memcxt implementations), or something
like that.

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