Re: Synchronizing slots from primary to standby

shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>

From: shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>
To: "Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)" <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>, Ajin Cherian <itsajin@gmail.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@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>, shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-02-23T05:21:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 10:06 AM Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)
<houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
>
> I noticed one CFbot failure[1] which is because the tap-test doesn't wait for the
> standby to catch up before promoting, thus the data inserted after promotion
> could not be replicated to the subscriber. Add a wait_for_replay_catchup to fix it.
>
> Apart from this, I also adjusted some variable names in the tap-test to be
> consistent. And added back a mis-removed ProcessConfigFile call.
>
> [1] https://cirrus-ci.com/task/6126787437002752?logs=check_world#L312
>

Thanks for the patches. Had a quick look at v95_2, here are some
trivial comments:


slot.h:
-----
1)
extern List *GetStandbySlotList(bool copy);
extern void WaitForStandbyConfirmation(XLogRecPtr wait_for_lsn);
extern void FilterStandbySlots(XLogRecPtr wait_for_lsn,
                 List **standby_slots);

The order is different from the one in slot.c

slot.c:
-----
2)
warningfmt = _("replication slot \"%s\" specified in parameter \"%s\"
does not exist, ignoring");

GUC names should not have double quotes. Same in each warningfmt in
this function


3)
errmsg("replication slot \"%s\" specified in parameter \"%s\" does not
have active_pid",

Same here, double quotes around standby_slot_names should be removed


 walsender.c:
------
4)
* Used by logical decoding SQL functions that acquired slot with failover
* enabled.

To be consistent with other such comments in previous patches:
slot with failover enabled --> failover enabled slot

5) Wake up the logical walsender processes with failover-enabled slots

failover-enabled slots  --> failover enabled slots

postgresql.conf.sample:
----------
6)
streaming replication standby server slot names that logical walsender
processes will wait for

Is it better to say it like this? (I leave this to your preference)

streaming replication standby server slot names for which logical
walsender processes will wait.

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).