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: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-01-09T04:05:45Z
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 Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 1:12 PM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have observed one more design issue.
>

Good observation.

>  The problem is that when we
> get a toasted chunks we remember the changes in the memory(hash table)
> but don't stream until we get the actual change on the main table.
> Now, the problem is that we might get the change of the toasted table
> and the main table in different streams.  So basically, in a stream,
> if we have only got the toasted tuples then even after
> ReorderBufferStreamTXN the memory usage will not be reduced.
>

I think we can't split such changes in a different stream (unless we
design an entirely new solution to send partial changes of toast
data), so we need to send them together. We can keep a flag like
data_complete in ReorderBufferTxn and mark it complete only when we
are able to assemble the entire tuple.  Now, whenever, we try to
stream the changes once we reach the memory threshold, we can check
whether the data_complete flag is true, if so, then only send the
changes, otherwise, we can pick the next largest transaction.  I think
we can retry it for few times and if we get the incomplete data for
multiple transactions, then we can decide to spill the transaction or
maybe we can directly spill the first largest transaction which has
incomplete data.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
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