Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Add non-blocking version of PQcancel

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Cc: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>, Denis Laxalde <denis.laxalde@dalibo.com>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, "Gregory Stark (as CFM)" <stark.cfm@gmail.com>, Jelte Fennema <Jelte.Fennema@microsoft.com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Etsuro Fujita <etsuro.fujita@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-08-30T20:55:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I wrote:
> Hmm.  I'm not convinced that 0001 is an actual *fix*, but it should
> at least reduce the frequency of occurrence a lot, which'd help.

After enabling log_statement = all to verify what commands are being
sent to the remote, I realized that there's a third thing this patch
can do to stabilize matters: issue a regular remote query inside the
test transaction, before we enable the timeout.  This will ensure
that we've dealt with configure_remote_session() and started a
remote transaction, so that there aren't extra round trips happening
for that while the clock is running.

Pushed with that addition and some comment-tweaking.  We'll see
whether that actually makes things more stable, but I don't think
it could make it worse.

			regards, tom lane



Commits

  1. postgres_fdw: re-issue cancel requests a few times if necessary.

  2. Make postgres_fdw's query_cancel test less flaky.

  3. postgres_fdw: Split out the query_cancel test to its own file

  4. Fix copy-paste mistake in PQcancelCreate

  5. Make libpqsrv_cancel's return const char *, not char *

  6. Stabilize postgres_fdw test

  7. libpq-be-fe-helpers.h: wrap new cancel APIs

  8. dblink/isolationtester/fe_utils: Use new cancel API

  9. Put libpq_pipeline cancel test back

  10. Hopefully make libpq_pipeline's new cancel test more reliable

  11. libpq: Add encrypted and non-blocking query cancellation routines

  12. libpq: Move pg_cancel to fe-cancel.c

  13. Add tests for libpq query cancellation APIs

  14. Add missing connection statuses to docs

  15. libpq: Change some static functions to extern

  16. libpq: Add pqReleaseConnHosts function

  17. libpq: Move cancellation related functions to fe-cancel.c

  18. Make spelling of cancelled/cancellation consistent

  19. Be more wary about OpenSSL not setting errno on error.

  20. libpq: Use modern socket flags, if available.

  21. Drop test view when done with it.

  22. Doc: add some doco about using the libpq_pipeline test module.

  23. postgres_fdw: Allow cancellation of transaction control commands.