Re: wake up logical workers after ALTER SUBSCRIPTION

On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 07:25:36AM +0000, houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 22, 2022 2:49 PM Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu) <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
>> Thanks for updating! It becomes better. Further comments:
>> 
>> 01. AlterSubscription()
>> 
>> ```
>> +	LogicalRepWorkersWakeupAtCommit(subid);
>> +
>> ```
>> 
>> Currently subids will be recorded even if the subscription is not modified.
>> I think LogicalRepWorkersWakeupAtCommit() should be called inside the if
>> (update_tuple).
> 
> I think an exception would be REFRESH PULLICATION in which case update_tuple is
> false, but it seems better to wake up apply worker in this case as well,
> because the apply worker is also responsible to start table sync workers for
> newly subscribed tables(in process_syncing_tables()).
> 
> Besides, it seems not a must to wake up apply worker for ALTER SKIP TRANSACTION,
> Although there might be no harm for waking up in this case.

In v3, I moved the call to LogicalRepWorkersWakeupAtCommit() to the end of
the function.  This should avoid waking up workers in some cases where it's
unnecessary (e.g., if ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ERRORs in a subtransaction), but
there are still cases where we'll wake up the workers unnecessarily.  I
think this is unlikely to cause any real problems in practice.

>> 02. LogicalRepWorkersWakeupAtCommit()
>> 
>> ```
>> +	oldcxt = MemoryContextSwitchTo(TopTransactionContext);
>> +	on_commit_wakeup_workers_subids =
>> lappend_oid(on_commit_wakeup_workers_subids,
>> +
>> 		  subid);
>> ```
>> 
>> If the subscription is altered twice in the same transaction, the same subid will
>> be recorded twice.
>> I'm not sure whether it may be caused some issued, but list_member_oid() can
>> be used to avoid that.
> 
> +1, list_append_unique_oid might be better.

Done in v3.

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