Re: Minimal logical decoding on standbys

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar.ahmad@gmail.com>, Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan.pg@gmail.com>, fabriziomello@gmail.com, tushar <tushar.ahuja@enterprisedb.com>, Rahila Syed <rahila.syed@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-12-20T18:31:53Z
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Commits

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  1. Reduce the log level in 035_standby_logical_decoding.pl.

  2. 035_standby_logical_decoding: Add missing waits for replication

  3. For cascading replication, wake physical and logical walsenders separately

  4. Handle logical slot conflicts on standby

  5. Support invalidating replication slots due to horizon and wal_level

  6. Prevent use of invalidated logical slot in CreateDecodingContext()

  7. Replace replication slot's invalidated_at LSN with an enum

  8. Pass down table relation into more index relation functions

  9. Assert only valid flag bits are passed to visibilitymap_set()

  10. Remove unused _bt_delitems_delete() argument.

  11. Add xl_btree_delete optimization.

On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 1:19 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> I don't understand what the "may*" or "*Possible" really are
> about. snapshotConflictHorizon is a conflict with a certain xid - there
> commonly won't be anything to conflict with. If there's a conflict in
> the logical-decoding-on-standby case, we won't be able to apply it only
> sometimes or such.

The way I was imagining it is that snapshotConflictHorizon tells us
whether there is a conflict with this record and then, if there is,
this new Boolean tells us whether it's relevant to logical decoding as
well.

> How about "affectsLogicalDecoding", "conflictsWithSlots" or
> "isCatalogRel" or such?

isCatalogRel seems fine to me.

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Robert Haas
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