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Re: Synchronizing slots from primary to standby

Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com>

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From: Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com>
To: shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>, "Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)" <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Ajin Cherian <itsajin@gmail.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>, Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date: 2024-03-05T06:45:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
I did performance tests for the v99 patch w.r.t. wait time analysis.
As this patch is introducing a wait for standby before sending changes
to a subscriber, at the primary node, logged time at the start and end
of the XLogSendLogical() call (which eventually calls
WalSndWaitForWal()) and calculated total time taken by this function
during the load run.

For load, ran pgbench for 15 minutes:
Creating tables: pgbench -p 5833 postgres -qis 2
Running benchmark: pgbench postgres -p 5833 -c 10 -j 3 -T 900 -P 20

Machine details:
11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11950H @ 2.60GHz 32GB RAM
OS - Windows 10 Enterprise

Test setup:
Primary node -->
      -> One physical standby node
      -> One subscriber node having only one subscription with failover=true

-- the slot-sync relevant parameters are set to default (OFF) for all
the tests i.e.
        hot_standby_feedback = off
        sync_replication_slots = false

-- addition configuration on each instance is:
shared_buffers = 6GB
max_worker_processes = 32
max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 24
max_parallel_workers = 32
synchronous_commit = off
checkpoint_timeout = 1d
max_wal_size = 24GB
min_wal_size = 15GB
autovacuum = off

To review the wait time impact with and without patch, compared three
cases (did two runs for each case)-
(1) HEAD code:
        time taken in run 1 = 103.935631 seconds
        time taken in run 2 = 104.832186 seconds

(2) HEAD code + v99 patch ('standby_slot_names' is not set):
        time taken in run 1 = 104.076343 seconds
        time taken in run 2 = 103.116226 seconds

(3) HEAD code + v99 patch + a valid 'standby_slot_names' is set:
        time taken in run 1 = 103.871012 seconds
        time taken in run 2 = 103.793524 seconds

The time consumption of XLogSendLogical() is almost same in all the
cases and no performance degradation is observed.

--
Thanks,
Nisha

Commits

  1. Doc: Add the new section "Logical Replication Failover".

  2. Fix the review comments and a bug in the slot sync code.

  3. Fix a test in failover slots regression test.

  4. Fix the intermittent buildfarm failures in 040_standby_failover_slots_sync.

  5. Split XLogCtl->LogwrtResult into separate struct members

  6. Ensure that the sync slots reach a consistent state after promotion without losing data.

  7. Introduce a new GUC 'standby_slot_names'.

  8. Fix BF failure introduced by commit b3f6b14cf4.

  9. Fixups for commit 93db6cbda0.

  10. Fix BF failure in commit 93db6cbda0.

  11. Add a new slot sync worker to synchronize logical slots.

  12. Improve ERROR/LOG messages added by commits ddd5f4f54a and 7a424ece48.

  13. Disable autovacuum on primary in 040_standby_failover_slots_sync test.

  14. Fix the incorrect format specifier used in commit 7a424ece48.

  15. Change the LOG level in 040_standby_failover_slots_sync.pl to DEBUG2.

  16. Add more LOG and DEBUG messages for slot synchronization.

  17. Another try to fix BF failure introduced in commit ddd5f4f54a.

  18. Fix BF introduced in commit ddd5f4f54a.

  19. Add a slot synchronization function.

  20. Clean-ups for 776621a5e4 and 7329240437.

  21. Enhance libpqrcv APIs to support slot synchronization.

  22. Add a failover option to subscriptions.

  23. Allow setting failover property in the replication command.

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

  25. Add macros for looping through a List without a ListCell.

  26. Track conflict_reason in pg_replication_slots.

  27. Allow upgrades to preserve the full subscription's state.

  28. Add support for incremental backup.

  29. Simplify some logic in CreateReplicationSlot()

  30. Fix uninitialized access to InitialRunningXacts during decoding after ERROR.

  31. Flexible options for CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT.

  32. Empty search_path in logical replication apply worker and walsender.

  33. Fix oldest xmin and LSN computation across repslots after advancing

  34. Require C99 (and thus MSCV 2013 upwards).