Re: Introduce XID age and inactive timeout based replication slot invalidation

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Cc: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>, shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-04-04T05:18:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Add a test for commit ac0e33136a using the injection point.

  2. Invalidate inactive replication slots.

  3. Fix incorrect slot type in BuildTupleHashTableExt

  4. Allow synced slots to have their inactive_since.

  5. Change last_inactive_time to inactive_since in pg_replication_slots.

  6. Track last_inactive_time in pg_replication_slots.

  7. Track invalidation_reason in pg_replication_slots.

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

  9. Add a failover option to subscriptions.

  10. Allow setting failover property in the replication command.

  11. Allow to enable failover property for replication slots via SQL API.

  12. Track conflict_reason in pg_replication_slots.

  13. Log messages for replication slot acquisition and release.

  14. Remove vacuum_defer_cleanup_age

  15. Fix corruption due to vacuum_defer_cleanup_age underflowing 64bit xids

  16. meson: Add initial version of meson based build system

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On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 8:28 PM Bharath Rupireddy
<bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 6:46 PM Bertrand Drouvot
> <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Just one comment on v32-0001:
> >
> > +# Synced slot on the standby must get its own inactive_since.
> > +is( $standby1->safe_psql(
> > +               'postgres',
> > +               "SELECT '$inactive_since_on_primary'::timestamptz <= '$inactive_since_on_standby'::timestamptz AND
> > +                       '$inactive_since_on_standby'::timestamptz <= '$slot_sync_time'::timestamptz;"
> > +       ),
> > +       "t",
> > +       'synchronized slot has got its own inactive_since');
> > +
> >
> > By using <= we are not testing that it must get its own inactive_since (as we
> > allow them to be equal in the test). I think we should just add some usleep()
> > where appropriate and deny equality during the tests on inactive_since.
>
> Thanks. It looks like we can ignore the equality in all of the
> inactive_since comparisons. IIUC, all the TAP tests do run with
> primary and standbys on the single BF animals. And, it looks like
> assigning the inactive_since timestamps to perl variables is giving
> the microseconds precision level
> (./tmp_check/log/regress_log_040_standby_failover_slots_sync:inactive_since
> 2024-04-03 14:30:09.691648+00). FWIW, we already have some TAP and SQL
> tests relying on stats_reset timestamps without equality. So, I've
> left the equality for the inactive_since tests.
>
> > Except for the above, v32-0001 LGTM.
>
> Thanks. Please see the attached v33-0001 patch after removing equality
> on inactive_since TAP tests.
>

The v33-0001 looks good to me. I have made minor changes in the
comments/commit message and removed one part of the test which was a
bit confusing and didn't seem to add much value. Let me know what you
think of the attached?

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.