Re: Non-superuser subscription owners

On 12/10/21 09:09, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 11:15 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, to me also (b) sounds better than (a). However, a few points
>> that we might want to consider in that regard are as follows: 1.
>> locking the subscription for each transaction will add new blocking
>> areas considering we acquire AccessExclusiveLock to change any
>> property of subscription. But as Alter Subscription won't be that
>> frequent operation it might be acceptable.
> The problem isn't the cost of the locks taken by ALTER SUBSCRIPTION.
> It's the cost of locking and unlocking the relation for every
> transaction we apply. Suppose it's a pgbench-type workload with a
> single UPDATE per transaction. You've just limited the maximum
> possible apply speed to about, I think, 30,000 transactions per second
> no matter how many parallel workers you use, because that's how fast
> the lock manager is (or was, unless newer hardware or newer PG
> versions have changed things in a way I don't know about). That seems
> like a poor idea. There's nothing wrong with noticing changes at the
> next transaction boundary, as long as we document it. So why would we
> incur a possibly-significant performance cost to provide a stricter
> guarantee?
>
> I bet users wouldn't even like this behavior. It would mean that if
> you are replicating a long-running transaction, an ALTER SUBSCRIPTION
> command might block for a long time until replication of that
> transaction completes. I have a hard time understanding why anyone
> would consider that an improvement.
>


+1


I think noticing changes at the transaction boundary is perfectly
acceptable.


cheers


andrew

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