Re: Conflict detection for update_deleted in logical replication

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)" <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>, Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-11-29T10:52:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 4:05 PM Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)
<kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> 07. wait_for_publisher_status
>
> I think all calculations and checking in the function can be done even on the
> walsender. Based on this, I come up with an idea to reduce the message size:
> walsender can just send a status (boolean) whether there are any running transactions
> instead of oldest xid, next xid and their epoch. Or, it is more important to reduce the
> amount of calc. on publisher side?
>

Won't it be tricky to implement this tracking on publisher side?
Because we not only need to check that there is no running xact but
also that the oldest_running_xact that was present last time when the
status message arrived has finished. Won't this need more bookkeeping
on publisher's side?

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.



Commits

  1. Fix intermittent BF failures in 035_conflicts.

  2. Resume conflict-relevant data retention automatically.

  3. Fix intermittent test failure introduced in 6456c6e2c4.

  4. Fix Coverity issue reported in commit a850be2fe.

  5. Add test to prevent premature removal of conflict-relevant data.

  6. Post-commit review fixes for 228c370868.

  7. Add max_retention_duration option to subscriptions.

  8. Detect and report update_deleted conflicts.

  9. Preserve conflict-relevant data during logical replication.

  10. Integrate FullTransactionIds deeper into two-phase code

  11. Improve checks for GUC recovery_target_timeline

  12. Prevent excessive delays before launching new logrep workers.

  13. Keep WAL segments by slot's last saved restart LSN

  14. Rework some code handling pg_subscription data in psql and pg_dump

  15. Use generateClonedIndexStmt to propagate CREATE INDEX to partitions.