Re: Minimal logical decoding on standbys

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: tushar <tushar.ahuja@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>, Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2019-03-01T17:46:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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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 2019-03-01 13:33:23 +0530, tushar wrote:
> While testing  this feature  found that - if lots of insert happened on the
> master cluster then pg_recvlogical is not showing the DATA information  on
> logical replication slot which created on SLAVE.
> 
> Please refer this scenario -
> 
> 1)
> Create a Master cluster with wal_level=logcal and create logical replication
> slot -
>  SELECT * FROM pg_create_logical_replication_slot('master_slot',
> 'test_decoding');
> 
> 2)
> Create a Standby  cluster using pg_basebackup ( ./pg_basebackup -D slave/ -v
> -R)  and create logical replication slot -
> SELECT * FROM pg_create_logical_replication_slot('standby_slot',
> 'test_decoding');

So, if I understand correctly you do *not* have a phyiscal replication
slot for this standby? For the feature to work reliably that needs to
exist, and you need to have hot_standby_feedback enabled. Does having
that fix the issue?

Thanks,

Andres