Re: speed up a logical replica setup

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>, "kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com" <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-01-18T09:37:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. pg_createsubscriber: Remove obsolete comment

  2. pg_createsubscriber: Fix an unpredictable recovery wait time.

  3. Fix unstable test in 040_pg_createsubscriber.

  4. Fix the testcase introduced in commit 81d20fbf7a.

  5. Further weaken new pg_createsubscriber test on Windows.

  6. Temporarily(?) weaken new pg_createsubscriber test on Windows.

  7. Make pg_createsubscriber warn if publisher has two-phase commit enabled.

  8. Make pg_createsubscriber more wary about quoting connection parameters.

  9. pg_createsubscriber: Remove failover replication slots on subscriber

  10. pg_createsubscriber: Remove replication slot check on primary

  11. pg_createsubscriber: Only --recovery-timeout controls the end of recovery process

  12. pg_createsubscriber: creates a new logical replica from a standby server

  13. Add some const decorations

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

  15. Remove MSVC scripts

On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 2:49 PM Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>
> On 11.01.24 23:15, Euler Taveira wrote:
> > A new tool called pg_subscriber can convert a physical replica into a
> > logical replica. It runs on the target server and should be able to
> > connect to the source server (publisher) and the target server (subscriber).
>
> Can we have a discussion on the name?
>
> I find the name pg_subscriber too general.
>
> The replication/backup/recovery tools in PostgreSQL are usually named
> along the lines of "verb - object".  (Otherwise, they would all be
> called "pg_backup"??)  Moreover, "pg_subscriber" also sounds like the
> name of the program that runs the subscriber itself, like what the
> walreceiver does now.
>
> Very early in this thread, someone mentioned the name
> pg_create_subscriber, and of course there is pglogical_create_subscriber
> as the historical predecessor.  Something along those lines seems better
> to me.  Maybe there are other ideas.
>

The other option could be pg_createsubscriber on the lines of
pg_verifybackup and pg_combinebackup. Yet other options could be
pg_buildsubscriber, pg_makesubscriber as 'build' or 'make' in the name
sounds like we are doing some work to create the subscriber which I
think is the case here.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.