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: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>
Cc: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-04-14T09:27:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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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 Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 6:12 PM Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 5:20 PM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 4:14 PM Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > +#define SizeOfTransactionId (sizeof(TransactionId) + sizeof(char))
> > > This looks wrong. We should change the name of this Macro or we can
> > > add the 1 byte directly in HEADER_SCRATCH_SIZE and some comments.
> >
> > I think this is in sync with below code (SizeOfXlogOrigin),  SO doen't
> > make much sense to add different terminology no?
> > #define SizeOfXlogOrigin (sizeof(RepOriginId) + sizeof(char))
> > +#define SizeOfTransactionId (sizeof(TransactionId) + sizeof(char))
> >
> In that case, we can rename this, for example, SizeOfXLogTransactionId.
>
> Some review comments from 0002-Issue-individual-*.path,
>
> +void
> +ReorderBufferAddInvalidation(ReorderBuffer *rb, TransactionId xid,
> + XLogRecPtr lsn, int nmsgs,
> + SharedInvalidationMessage *msgs)
> +{
> + MemoryContext oldcontext;
> + ReorderBufferChange *change;
> +
> + /* XXX Should we even write invalidations without valid XID? */
> + if (xid == InvalidTransactionId)
> + return;
> +
> + Assert(xid != InvalidTransactionId);
>
> It seems we don't call the function if xid is not valid. In fact,
>

You have a valid point.  Also, it is not clear if we are first
checking (xid == InvalidTransactionId) and returning from the
function, how can even Assert hit.

> @@ -281,6 +281,24 @@ DecodeXactOp(LogicalDecodingContext *ctx,
> XLogRecordBuffer *buf)
>   }
>   case XLOG_XACT_ASSIGNMENT:
>   break;
> + case XLOG_XACT_INVALIDATIONS:
> + {
> + TransactionId xid;
> + xl_xact_invalidations *invals;
> +
> + xid = XLogRecGetXid(r);
> + invals = (xl_xact_invalidations *) XLogRecGetData(r);
> +
> + if (!TransactionIdIsValid(xid))
> + break;
> +
> + ReorderBufferAddInvalidation(reorder, xid, buf->origptr,
> + invals->nmsgs, invals->msgs);
>
> Why should we insert an WAL record for such cases?
>

Right, if there is any such case, we should avoid it.

One more point about this patch, the commit message needs to be updated:

> The new invalidations are written to WAL immediately, without any
such caching. Perhaps it would be possible to add similar caching,
> e.g. at the command level, or something like that?

I think the above part of commit message is not right as the patch
already does such a caching now at the command level.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
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