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: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>, Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@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: 2020-08-14T06:14:37Z
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 Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 10:11 AM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 6:38 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have pushed that patch last week and attached are the remaining
> > patches. I have made a few changes in the next patch
> > 0001-Extend-the-BufFile-interface.patch and have some comments on it
> > which are as below:
>
> Hi Amit,
>
> I noticed that Konstantin Knizhnik's CF entry 2386 calls
> table_scan_XXX() functions from an extension, namely
> contrib/auto_explain, and started failing to build on Windows after
> commit 7259736a.  This seems to be due to the new global variables
> CheckXidAlive and bsysscan, which probably need PGDLLIMPORT if they
> are accessed from inline functions that are part of the API that we
> expect extensions to be allowed to call.
>

Yeah, that makes sense. I will take care of that later today or
tomorrow. We have not noticed that because currently none of the
extensions is using those functions. BTW, I noticed that after
failure, the next run is green, why so? Is the next run not on
windows?

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.