Re: Introduce XID age and inactive timeout based replication slot invalidation

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Cc: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-03-24T05:10:19Z
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  1. Add a test for commit ac0e33136a using the injection point.

  2. Invalidate inactive replication slots.

  3. Fix incorrect slot type in BuildTupleHashTableExt

  4. Allow synced slots to have their inactive_since.

  5. Change last_inactive_time to inactive_since in pg_replication_slots.

  6. Track last_inactive_time in pg_replication_slots.

  7. Track invalidation_reason in pg_replication_slots.

  8. Add option force_initdb to PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster:init()

  9. Add a failover option to subscriptions.

  10. Allow setting failover property in the replication command.

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

  12. Track conflict_reason in pg_replication_slots.

  13. Log messages for replication slot acquisition and release.

  14. Remove vacuum_defer_cleanup_age

  15. Fix corruption due to vacuum_defer_cleanup_age underflowing 64bit xids

  16. meson: Add initial version of meson based build system

On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 1:12 PM Bharath Rupireddy
<bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 11:27 AM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
>
> > 2.
> > +# Get last_inactive_time value after slot's creation. Note that the
> > slot is still
> > +# inactive unless it's used by the standby below.
> > +my $last_inactive_time_1 = $primary->safe_psql('postgres',
> > + qq(SELECT last_inactive_time FROM pg_replication_slots WHERE
> > slot_name = '$sb_slot' AND last_inactive_time IS NOT NULL;)
> > +);
> >
> > We should check $last_inactive_time_1 to be a valid value and add a
> > similar check for logical slots.
>
> That's taken care by the type cast we do, right? Isn't that enough?
>
> is( $primary->safe_psql(
>         'postgres',
>         qq[SELECT last_inactive_time >
> '$last_inactive_time'::timestamptz FROM pg_replication_slots WHERE
> slot_name = '$sb_slot' AND last_inactive_time IS NOT NULL;]
>     ),
>     't',
>     'last inactive time for an inactive physical slot is updated correctly');
>
> For instance, setting last_inactive_time_1 to an invalid value fails
> with the following error:
>
> error running SQL: 'psql:<stdin>:1: ERROR:  invalid input syntax for
> type timestamp with time zone: "foo"
> LINE 1: SELECT last_inactive_time > 'foo'::timestamptz FROM pg_repli...
>

It would be found at a later point. It would be probably better to
verify immediately after the test that fetches the last_inactive_time
value.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.