Re: Synchronizing slots from primary to standby

shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>

From: shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>
To: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, "Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)" <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>, Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com>, "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.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>, Ajin Cherian <itsajin@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-01-24T11:47:01Z
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On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 4:09 PM shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Even if others agree and we change this GUC name to
> "sync_replication_slots", I feel we should keep the values as "on" and
> "off" currently, where "on" would mean 'sync failover slots' (docs can
> state that clearly).  I do not think we should support sync of "all
> kinds of supported slots" in the first version. Maybe we can think
> about it for future versions.

PFA v67. Note that the GUC (enable_syncslot) name is unchanged. Once
we have final agreement on the name, we can make the change in the
next version.

Changes in v67 are:

1) Addressed comments by Peter given in [1].
2) Addressed comments by Swada-San given in [2].
3) Removed syncing 'failover' on standby from remote_slot. The
'failover' field will be false for synced slots. Since we do not
support sync to cascading standbys yet, thus failover=true was
misleading and unused there.

Thanks Hou-San for contributing in 2.

Changes are split across patch001,002 and 003.

TODO:
--Split patch-001 as suggested in [3].
--Change GUC name.

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHut%2BPu_uK%3D%3DM%2BVmCMug7m7O6LAwpC05A%3DT7zP8c4G2-hS%2Bbdg%40mail.gmail.com
[2]: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAD21AoApGoTZu7D_7%3DbVYQqKnj%2BPZ2Rz%2Bnc8Ky1HPQMS_XL6%2BA%40mail.gmail.com
[3]: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAA4eK1Lxvfq9RwOEsguiMCrKPUc1He9UGz1_wi0N0cJaXFa4Eg%40mail.gmail.com


thanks
Shveta

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).