Re: Synchronizing slots from primary to standby

shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>

From: shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>
To: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Cc: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@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>, shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>
Date: 2023-09-13T11:26:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 2:18 PM shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 1:59 PM Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Shveta. Here are some comments for patch v14-0002
> >
> > The patch is large, so my code review is a WIP... more later next week...
> >
>
> Thanks Peter for the feedback. I have tried to address most of these
> in v15. Please find my response inline for the ones which I have not
> addressed.
>
> >
> > 26.
> > +typedef struct SlotSyncWorker
> > +{
> > + /* Time at which this worker was launched. */
> > + TimestampTz launch_time;
> > +
> > + /* Indicates if this slot is used or free. */
> > + bool in_use;
> > +
> > + /* The slot in worker pool to which it is attached */
> > + int slot;
> > +
> > + /* Increased every time the slot is taken by new worker. */
> > + uint16 generation;
> > +
> > + /* Pointer to proc array. NULL if not running. */
> > + PGPROC    *proc;
> > +
> > + /* User to use for connection (will be same as owner of subscription). */
> > + Oid userid;
> > +
> > + /* Database id to connect to. */
> > + Oid dbid;
> > +
> > + /* Count of Database ids it manages */
> > + uint32 dbcount;
> > +
> > + /* DSA for dbids */
> > + dsa_area *dbids_dsa;
> > +
> > + /* dsa_pointer for database ids it manages */
> > + dsa_pointer dbids_dp;
> > +
> > + /* Mutex to access dbids in dsa */
> > + slock_t         mutex;
> > +
> > + /* Info about slot being monitored for worker's naptime purpose */
> > + SlotSyncWorkerWatchSlot monitor;
> > +} SlotSyncWorker;
> >
> > There seems an awful lot about this struct which is common with
> > 'LogicalRepWorker' struct.
> >
> > It seems a shame not to make use of the commonality instead of all the
> > cut/paste here.
> >
> > E.g. Can it be rearranged so all these common fields are shared:
> > - launch_time
> > - in_use
> > - slot
> > - generation
> > - proc
> > - userid
> > - dbid
> >
>
> Sure, I had this in mind along with previous comments where it was
> suggested to merge similar functions like
> WaitForReplicationWorkerAttach, WaitForSlotSyncWorkerAttach etc. That
> merging could only be possible if we try to merge the common part of
> these structures. This is WIP, will be addressed in the next version.
>

This has been addressed in version-17 now.

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).