Re: speed up a logical replica setup

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>, Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>, "kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com" <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>, Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-07-01T01:32:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. pg_createsubscriber: Remove obsolete comment

  2. pg_createsubscriber: Fix an unpredictable recovery wait time.

  3. Fix unstable test in 040_pg_createsubscriber.

  4. Fix the testcase introduced in commit 81d20fbf7a.

  5. Further weaken new pg_createsubscriber test on Windows.

  6. Temporarily(?) weaken new pg_createsubscriber test on Windows.

  7. Make pg_createsubscriber warn if publisher has two-phase commit enabled.

  8. Make pg_createsubscriber more wary about quoting connection parameters.

  9. pg_createsubscriber: Remove failover replication slots on subscriber

  10. pg_createsubscriber: Remove replication slot check on primary

  11. pg_createsubscriber: Only --recovery-timeout controls the end of recovery process

  12. pg_createsubscriber: creates a new logical replica from a standby server

  13. Add some const decorations

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

  15. Remove MSVC scripts

Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 05:01:52PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm tempted to lobotomize the new test case on Windows until
>> we have that resolved.

> Sounds fine.  The pg_upgrade suite adequately tests appendShellString() and
> appendConnStrVal() with the larger character repertoire, so it's enough for
> pg_createsubscriber to test just a space or so.

Hmph ... according to [1], 545082091 was not enough to fix this.
I guess that old version of IPC::Run also misbehaves for cases
involving backslash, single quote, and/or some other special
characters?

			regards, tom lane

[1] https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=fairywren&dt=2024-07-01%2000%3A03%3A05