Re: Skipping logical replication transactions on subscriber side

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-07-01T11:20:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 1:24 PM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 8:05 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If so, in which cases are you imagining the files to be
> > created, is it in the case of relation message
> > (LOGICAL_REP_MSG_RELATION)? Assuming the previous two statements are
> > correct, this will skip the relation message as well as part of the
> > removal of stream files which might lead to a problem because the
> > publisher won't know that we have skipped the relation message and it
> > won't send it again. This can cause problems while processing the next
> > messages.
>
> Good point. In the current patch, we skip all streamed changes at
> stream_commit/abort but it should apply changes while skipping only
> data-modification changes as we do for non-stream changes.
>

Right.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.



Commits

  1. Test ALIGNOF_DOUBLE==4 compatibility under ALIGNOF_DOUBLE==8.

  2. Reorder subskiplsn in pg_subscription to avoid alignment issues.

  3. Add ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... SKIP.

  4. Optionally disable subscriptions on error.

  5. Update docs of logical replication for commit 8d74fc96db.

  6. Respect permissions within logical replication.

  7. Fix regression test failure caused by commit 8d74fc96db.

  8. Add a view to show the stats of subscription workers.

  9. Add logical change details to logical replication worker errcontext.

  10. Rename LOGICAL_REP_MSG_STREAM_END to LOGICAL_REP_MSG_STREAM_STOP.

  11. Fix typo in protocol.sgml.

  12. Remove unused argument in apply_handle_commit_internal().

  13. Fix replication of in-progress transactions in tablesync worker.

  14. Reorder pg_sequence columns to avoid alignment issue