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Re: Synchronizing slots from primary to standby

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

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From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Cc: "Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)" <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>, Ajin Cherian <itsajin@gmail.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com>, "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date: 2024-02-13T11:50:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 4:59 PM Bertrand Drouvot
<bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 04:08:23AM +0000, Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu) wrote:
> > On Tuesday, February 13, 2024 9:16 AM Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu) <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Here is the new version patch which addressed above and most of Bertrand's
> > > comments.
> > >
> > > TODO: trying to add one test for the case the slot is valid on primary while the
> > > synced slots is invalidated on the standby.
> >
> > Here is the V85_2 patch set that added the test and fixed one typo,
> > there are no other code changes.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Out of curiosity I ran a code coverage and the result for slotsync.c can be
> found in [1].
>
> It appears that:
>
> - only one function is not covered (slotsync_failure_callback()).
> - 84% of the slotsync.c code is covered, the parts that are not are mainly
> related to "errors".
>
> Worth to try to extend the coverage? (I've in mind 731, 739, 766, 778, 786, 796,
> 808)
>

All these additional line numbers mentioned by you are ERROR paths. I
think if we want we can easily cover most of those but I am not sure
if there is a benefit to cover each error path.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

Commits

  1. Doc: Add the new section "Logical Replication Failover".

  2. Fix the review comments and a bug in the slot sync code.

  3. Fix a test in failover slots regression test.

  4. Fix the intermittent buildfarm failures in 040_standby_failover_slots_sync.

  5. Split XLogCtl->LogwrtResult into separate struct members

  6. Ensure that the sync slots reach a consistent state after promotion without losing data.

  7. Introduce a new GUC 'standby_slot_names'.

  8. Fix BF failure introduced by commit b3f6b14cf4.

  9. Fixups for commit 93db6cbda0.

  10. Fix BF failure in commit 93db6cbda0.

  11. Add a new slot sync worker to synchronize logical slots.

  12. Improve ERROR/LOG messages added by commits ddd5f4f54a and 7a424ece48.

  13. Disable autovacuum on primary in 040_standby_failover_slots_sync test.

  14. Fix the incorrect format specifier used in commit 7a424ece48.

  15. Change the LOG level in 040_standby_failover_slots_sync.pl to DEBUG2.

  16. Add more LOG and DEBUG messages for slot synchronization.

  17. Another try to fix BF failure introduced in commit ddd5f4f54a.

  18. Fix BF introduced in commit ddd5f4f54a.

  19. Add a slot synchronization function.

  20. Clean-ups for 776621a5e4 and 7329240437.

  21. Enhance libpqrcv APIs to support slot synchronization.

  22. Add a failover option to subscriptions.

  23. Allow setting failover property in the replication command.

  24. Allow to enable failover property for replication slots via SQL API.

  25. Add macros for looping through a List without a ListCell.

  26. Track conflict_reason in pg_replication_slots.

  27. Allow upgrades to preserve the full subscription's state.

  28. Add support for incremental backup.

  29. Simplify some logic in CreateReplicationSlot()

  30. Fix uninitialized access to InitialRunningXacts during decoding after ERROR.

  31. Flexible options for CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT.

  32. Empty search_path in logical replication apply worker and walsender.

  33. Fix oldest xmin and LSN computation across repslots after advancing

  34. Require C99 (and thus MSCV 2013 upwards).