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

shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>

From: shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>
To: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-03-26T06:20:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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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 Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 11:36 AM Bertrand Drouvot
<bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The issue that I can see with your proposal is: what if one synced the slots
> > manually (with pg_sync_replication_slots()) but does not use the sync worker?
> > Then I think ShutDownSlotSync() is not going to help in that case.
>
> It looks like ShutDownSlotSync() is always called (even if sync_replication_slots = off),
> so that sounds ok to me (I should have checked the code, I was under the impression
> ShutDownSlotSync() was not called if sync_replication_slots = off).

Right, it is called irrespective of sync_replication_slots.

thanks
Shveta