Re: Logical replication 'invalid memory alloc request size 1585837200' after upgrading to 17.5

Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@deepbluecap.com>

From: Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@deepbluecap.com>
To: "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>, 'Masahiko Sawada' <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Cc: "pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-06-02T07:12:50Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Dear Hayato Kuroda, I tried 
v4-PG17-0001-Avoid-distributing-invalidation-messages-sev.patch and I can 
confirm that it also resolves my original issue.

Best wishes, Duncan.

On 28/05/2025 14:27, Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu) wrote:
> Dear Sawada-san, Amit,
> 
>>> It can impact the performance for large transactions with fewer
>>> invalidations, especially the ones which has spilled changes because
>>> it needs to traverse the entire list of changes again at the end.
>>
>> Agreed.
>>
>>> The
>>> other idea would be to add new member(s) in ReorderBufferTXN to
>>> receive distributed invalidations. For adding the new member in
>>> ReorderBufferTXN: (a) in HEAD, it should be okay, (b) for
>>> backbranches, we may be able to add at the end, but we should check if
>>> there are any extensions using sizeof(ReorderBufferTxn) and if they
>>> are using what we need to do.
>>
>> If we can make sure that that change won't break the existing
>> extensions, I think this would be the most reasonable solution.
> 
> Based on the discussion, I created PoC for master/PG17. Please see attached.
> The basic idea is to introduce the new queue which only contains distributed inval
> messages. Contents are consumed at end of transactions. I feel some of codes can
> be re-used so that internal functions are introduced. At least, it could pass
> regression tests and workloads discussed here.
> 
> Best regards,
> Hayato Kuroda
> FUJITSU LIMITED
> 




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  1. Fix cache-dependent test failures in logical decoding.

  2. Fix re-distributing previously distributed invalidation messages during logical decoding.

  3. Fix data loss in logical replication.