Re: Skipping logical replication transactions on subscriber side

Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>

From: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, "houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com" <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>, "tanghy.fnst@fujitsu.com" <tanghy.fnst@fujitsu.com>, "osumi.takamichi@fujitsu.com" <osumi.takamichi@fujitsu.com>, Alexey Lesovsky <lesovsky@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-10-01T09:11:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 2:50 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 6:30 AM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 5:05 AM Peter Eisentraut
> > <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Also, what happens when you forget to reset the xid after it has passed?
> > >   Will it get skipped again after wraparound?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
>
> Aren't we resetting the skip_xid once we skip that transaction in
> stop_skipping_changes()? If so, it shouldn't be possible to skip it
> again after the wraparound. Am I missing something?

Oops, I'd misunderstood the question. Yes, Amit is right. Once we skip
the transaction, skip_xid is automatically reset. So users don't need
to reset it manually after skipping the transaction. Sorry for the
confusion.

Regards,

-- 
Masahiko Sawada
EDB:  https://www.enterprisedb.com/



Commits

  1. Test ALIGNOF_DOUBLE==4 compatibility under ALIGNOF_DOUBLE==8.

  2. Reorder subskiplsn in pg_subscription to avoid alignment issues.

  3. Add ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... SKIP.

  4. Optionally disable subscriptions on error.

  5. Update docs of logical replication for commit 8d74fc96db.

  6. Respect permissions within logical replication.

  7. Fix regression test failure caused by commit 8d74fc96db.

  8. Add a view to show the stats of subscription workers.

  9. Add logical change details to logical replication worker errcontext.

  10. Rename LOGICAL_REP_MSG_STREAM_END to LOGICAL_REP_MSG_STREAM_STOP.

  11. Fix typo in protocol.sgml.

  12. Remove unused argument in apply_handle_commit_internal().

  13. Fix replication of in-progress transactions in tablesync worker.

  14. Reorder pg_sequence columns to avoid alignment issue