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Re: Perform streaming logical transactions by background workers and parallel apply

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

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From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Cc: "Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)" <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>, Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-04-28T09:01:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 11:48 AM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 11:51 AM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 4:11 PM Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)
> > <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wednesday, April 26, 2023 5:00 PM Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > IIUC, that assert will fail in case of any error raised between
> > > > ApplyWorkerMain()->logicalrep_worker_attach()->before_shmem_exit() and
> > > > ApplyWorkerMain()->InitializeApplyWorker()->BackgroundWorkerInitializeC
> > > > onnectionByOid()->InitPostgres().
> > >
> > > Thanks for reporting the issue.
> > >
> > > I think the problem is that it tried to release locks in
> > > logicalrep_worker_onexit() before the initialization of the process is complete
> > > because this callback function was registered before the init phase. So I think we
> > > can add a conditional statement before releasing locks. Please find an attached
> > > patch.
> > >
> >
> > Alexander, does the proposed patch fix the problem you are facing?
> > Sawada-San, and others, do you see any better way to fix it than what
> > has been proposed?
>
> I'm concerned that the idea of relying on IsNormalProcessingMode()
> might not be robust since if we change the meaning of
> IsNormalProcessingMode() some day it would silently break again. So I
> prefer using something like InitializingApplyWorker,
>

I think if we change the meaning of IsNormalProcessingMode() then it
could also break the other places the similar check is being used.
However, I am fine with InitializingApplyWorker as that could be used
at other places as well. I just want to avoid adding another variable
by using IsNormalProcessingMode.

> or another idea
> would be to do cleanup work (e.g., fileset deletion and lock release)
> in a separate callback that is registered after connecting to the
> database.
>

Yeah, but not sure if it's worth having multiple callbacks for cleanup work.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

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  1. Fix invalid memory access during the shutdown of the parallel apply worker.

  2. Fix assertion failure in apply worker.

  3. Use elog to report unexpected action in handle_streamed_transaction().

  4. Use appropriate wait event when sending data in the apply worker.

  5. Allow the logical_replication_mode to be used on the subscriber.

  6. Rename GUC logical_decoding_mode to logical_replication_mode.

  7. Display the leader apply worker's PID for parallel apply workers.

  8. Improve the code to decide and process the apply action.

  9. Document the newly added wait events added by commit 216a784829.

  10. Perform apply of large transactions by parallel workers.

  11. Wake up a subscription's replication worker processes after DDL.

  12. Add copyright notices to meson files

  13. Better document logical replication parameters

  14. Add a common function to generate the origin name.

  15. Harmonize parameter names in storage and AM code.

  16. Avoid using list_length() to test for empty list.

  17. Improve two comments related to a boolean DefElem's value

  18. Fix partition table's REPLICA IDENTITY checking on the subscriber.

  19. Fix data inconsistency between publisher and subscriber.

  20. Fix cache look-up failures while applying changes in logical replication.