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

Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>

From: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>

To: Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com>

Cc: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@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: 2025-02-05T03:13:34Z

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Add a test for commit ac0e33136a using the injection point.
- 8a695d7998be 18.0 landed
Invalidate inactive replication slots.
- ac0e33136abc 18.0 landed
Fix incorrect slot type in BuildTupleHashTableExt
- d96d1d5152f3 18.0 cited
Allow synced slots to have their inactive_since.
- 6f132ed693b6 17.0 landed
Change last_inactive_time to inactive_since in pg_replication_slots.
- 6d49c8d4b4f4 17.0 landed
Track last_inactive_time in pg_replication_slots.
- a11f330b5584 17.0 landed
Track invalidation_reason in pg_replication_slots.
- 6ae701b4378d 17.0 landed
Add option force_initdb to PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster:init()
- ff9e1e764fcc 17.0 cited
Add a failover option to subscriptions.
- 776621a5e479 17.0 cited
Allow setting failover property in the replication command.
- 73292404370c 17.0 cited
Allow to enable failover property for replication slots via SQL API.
- c393308b69d2 17.0 cited
Track conflict_reason in pg_replication_slots.
- 007693f2a3ac 17.0 cited
Log messages for replication slot acquisition and release.
- 7c3fb505b14e 17.0 cited
Remove vacuum_defer_cleanup_age
- 1118cd37eb61 16.0 cited
Fix corruption due to vacuum_defer_cleanup_age underflowing 64bit xids
- be504a3e974d 16.0 cited
meson: Add initial version of meson based build system
- e6927270cd18 16.0 cited

Review comments for v69-0001.

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doc/src/sgml/config.sgml

1.
+       <para>
+        Invalidate replication slots that have remained idle longer than this
+        duration. If this value is specified without units, it is taken as
+        minutes. A value of zero (which is default) disables the idle timeout
+        invalidation mechanism. This parameter can only be set in the
+        <filename>postgresql.conf</filename> file or on the server command
+        line.
+       </para>

Suggest writing "(the default)" instead of "(which is default)" to be
consistent with the wording of other descriptions on this page.

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src/backend/replication/slot.c

2.
+static inline bool
+CanInvalidateIdleSlot(ReplicationSlot *s)
+{
+ return (idle_replication_slot_timeout_mins > 0 &&
+ !XLogRecPtrIsInvalid(s->data.restart_lsn) &&
+ s->inactive_since > 0 &&
+ !(RecoveryInProgress() && s->data.synced));
 }

I wasn't sure why those conditions were '> 0' instead of just '!= 0'.
IIUC negative values aren't possible for
idle_replication_slot_timeout_mins and active_since anyhow.

But, the current patch code is also ok if you prefer.

~~~

3.
+ if (cause == RS_INVAL_IDLE_TIMEOUT)
+ {
+ /*
+ * We get the current time beforehand to avoid system call while
+ * holding the spinlock.
+ */
+ now = GetCurrentTimestamp();
+ }
+

SUGGESTION
Assign the current time here to reduce system call overhead while
holding the spinlock in subsequent code.

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Kind Regards,
Peter Smith.
Fujitsu Australia