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: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Cc: Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>, "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>, shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>, Ajin Cherian <itsajin@gmail.com>, Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-01-29T08:37:07Z
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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

On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 at 17:28, Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Please find the attached v64 patches. The changes in this version
> > w.r.t. older patch v63 are as -
> > - The changes from the v63-0001 patch have been moved to a separate thread [1].
> > - The v63-0002 patch has been split into two parts in v64:
> >   1) 001 patch: Implements the main feature - inactive timeout-based
> > slot invalidation.
> >   2) 002 patch: Separates the TAP test "044_invalidate_inactive_slots"
> > as suggested above.
>
> Currently the test takes around 220 seconds for me. We could do the
> following changes to bring it down to around 70 to 80 seconds:
>

Even then it is too long for a single test to be part of committed
code. So, we can temporarily reduce its time but fixing comments on
this is not a good use of time. We need to write this test in some
other way if we want to see it committed.

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.