Re: PATCH: logical_work_mem and logical streaming of large in-progress transactions

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-10-23T09:13:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. Tighten the concurrent abort check during decoding.

  2. Improve hash_create()'s API for some added robustness.

  3. Use HASH_BLOBS for xidhash.

  4. Fix initialization of RelationSyncEntry for streaming transactions.

  5. Remove unused function declaration in logicalproto.h.

  6. Add additional tests to test streaming of in-progress transactions.

  7. Fix inline marking introduced in commit 464824323e.

  8. Add support for streaming to built-in logical replication.

  9. Fix the SharedFileSetUnregister API.

  10. Fix comment in procarray.c

  11. Suppress compiler warning in non-cassert builds.

  12. Extend the BufFile interface.

  13. Mark a few logical decoding related variables with PGDLLIMPORT.

  14. Implement streaming mode in ReorderBuffer.

  15. Extend the logical decoding output plugin API with stream methods.

  16. WAL Log invalidations at command end with wal_level=logical.

  17. Immediately WAL-log subtransaction and top-level XID association.

  18. Allow logical replication to transfer data in binary format.

  19. Only superuser can set sslcert/sslkey in postgres_fdw user mappings

  20. Track statistics for spilling of changes from ReorderBuffer.

  21. Add logical_decoding_work_mem to limit ReorderBuffer memory usage.

  22. logical decoding: process ASSIGNMENT during snapshot build

  23. Emit invalidations to standby for transactions without xid.

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:42 PM Tomas Vondra
<tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:30:16AM +0530, Dilip Kumar wrote:
> >
> >I have moved it out as a separate patch (0003) so that if we need that
> >we need this for the streaming transaction then we can keep this.
> >>
>
> I'm OK with moving it to a separate patch. That being said I think
> ability to control memory usage for individual subscriptions is very
> useful. Saying "We don't need such parameter" is essentially equivalent
> to saying "One size fits all" and I think we know that's not true.
>
> Imagine a system with multiple subscriptions, some of them mostly
> replicating OLTP changes, but one or two replicating tables that are
> updated in batches. What we'd have is to allow higher limit for the
> batch subscriptions, but much lower limit for the OLTP ones (which they
> should never hit in practice).
>

This point is not clear to me.  The changes are recorded in
ReorderBuffer which doesn't have any filtering aka it will have all
the changes irrespective of the subscriber.  How will it make a
difference to have different limits?

> With a single global GUC, you'll either have a high value - risking
> OOM when the OLTP subscriptions happen to decode a batch update, or a
> low value affecting the batch subscriotions.
>
> It's not strictly necessary (and we already have such limit), so I'm OK
> with treating it as an enhancement for the future.
>

I am fine too if its usage is clear.  I might be missing something here.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
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