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

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: "houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com" <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, "wangw.fnst@fujitsu.com" <wangw.fnst@fujitsu.com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, "shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com" <shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-11-11T07:21:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 7:57 AM houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com
<houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday, November 7, 2022 6:18 PM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Here are comments on v42-0001:
> >
> > We have the following three similar name functions regarding to
> > starting a new parallel apply worker:
> > ---
> >          /*
> >           * Exit if any parameter that affects the remote connection
> > was changed.
> > -         * The launcher will start a new worker.
> > +         * The launcher will start a new worker, but note that the
> > parallel apply
> > +         * worker may or may not restart depending on the value of
> > the streaming
> > +         * option and whether there will be a streaming transaction.
> >
> > In which case does the parallel apply worker don't restart even if the
> > streaming option has been changed?
>
> Sorry, I forgot to reply to this comment. If user change the streaming option from
> 'parallel' to 'on' or 'off', the parallel apply workers won't be restarted.
>

How about something like the below so as to be more explicit about
this in the comments?
diff --git a/src/backend/replication/logical/worker.c
b/src/backend/replication/logical/worker.c
index bfe326bf0c..74cd5565bd 100644
--- a/src/backend/replication/logical/worker.c
+++ b/src/backend/replication/logical/worker.c
@@ -3727,9 +3727,10 @@ maybe_reread_subscription(void)

        /*
         * Exit if any parameter that affects the remote connection was changed.
-        * The launcher will start a new worker, but note that the
parallel apply
-        * worker may or may not restart depending on the value of the streaming
-        * option and whether there will be a streaming transaction.
+        * The launcher will start a new worker but note that the parallel apply
+        * worker won't restart if the streaming option's value is changed from
+        * 'parallel' to any other value or the server decides not to stream the
+        * in-progress transaction.
         */

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.



Commits

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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.