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

Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com>

From: Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>, shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>, Ajin Cherian <itsajin@gmail.com>, Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-02-03T12:05:22Z
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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 Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 5:50 PM Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Please find the attached v66 patch set. The base patch(v65-001) is
> > committed now, so I have rebased the patches.
> >
>
> *
>        <para>
>          The time when the slot became inactive. <literal>NULL</literal> if the
> -        slot is currently being streamed.
> +        slot is currently being streamed. If the slot becomes invalidated,
> +        this value will remain unchanged until server shutdown.
> ...
> @@ -2408,7 +2527,9 @@ RestoreSlotFromDisk(const char *name)
>   /*
>   * Set the time since the slot has become inactive after loading the
>   * slot from the disk into memory. Whoever acquires the slot i.e.
> - * makes the slot active will reset it.
> + * makes the slot active will reset it. Avoid calling
> + * ReplicationSlotSetInactiveSince() here, as it will not set the time
> + * for invalid slots.
>   */
>   slot->inactive_since = GetCurrentTimestamp();
>
> It looks inconsistent to set inactive_since on restart for invalid
> slots but not at other times. We don't need to set inactive_since for
> invalid slots. The invalid slots should not be updated. Ideally, this
> should be taken care in the patch that introduces inactive_since but
> we can do that now. Let's do this as a separate patch altogether in a
> new thread.

Created a new thread [1] to address the inactive_since update for
invalid slots in a separate patch.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CABdArM7QdifQ_MHmMA%3DCc4v8%2BMeckkwKncm2Nn6tX9wSCQ-%2Biw%40mail.gmail.com

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Thanks,
Nisha