Re: Introduce XID age and inactive timeout based replication slot invalidation

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Cc: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-03-03T21:44:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Add a test for commit ac0e33136a using the injection point.

  2. Invalidate inactive replication slots.

  3. Fix incorrect slot type in BuildTupleHashTableExt

  4. Allow synced slots to have their inactive_since.

  5. Change last_inactive_time to inactive_since in pg_replication_slots.

  6. Track last_inactive_time in pg_replication_slots.

  7. Track invalidation_reason in pg_replication_slots.

  8. Add option force_initdb to PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster:init()

  9. Add a failover option to subscriptions.

  10. Allow setting failover property in the replication command.

  11. Allow to enable failover property for replication slots via SQL API.

  12. Track conflict_reason in pg_replication_slots.

  13. Log messages for replication slot acquisition and release.

  14. Remove vacuum_defer_cleanup_age

  15. Fix corruption due to vacuum_defer_cleanup_age underflowing 64bit xids

  16. meson: Add initial version of meson based build system

On Sun, Mar 03, 2024 at 11:40:00PM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 3:41 AM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Would you ever see "conflict" as false and "invalidation_reason" as
>> non-null for a logical slot?
> 
> No. Because both conflict and invalidation_reason are decided based on
> the invalidation reason i.e. value of slot_contents.data.invalidated.
> IOW, a logical slot that reports conflict as true must have been
> invalidated.
> 
> Do you have any thoughts on reverting 007693f and introducing
> invalidation_reason?

Unless I am misinterpreting some details, ISTM we could rename this column
to invalidation_reason and use it for both logical and physical slots.  I'm
not seeing a strong need for another column.  Perhaps I am missing
something...

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