Re: [HACKERS] make async slave to wait for lsn to be replayed

Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>

From: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
To: Kartyshov Ivan <i.kartyshov@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: Andy Fan <zhihuifan1213@163.com>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>, Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2024-04-02T10:15:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 3:41 PM Kartyshov Ivan
<i.kartyshov@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
>
> 8 years, we tried to add this feature, and now we suggest the best way
> for this feature is to commit the minimal version first.

Just curious, do you or anyone else have an immediate use for this
function? If yes, how are they achieving read-after-write-consistency
on streaming standbys in their application right now without a
function like this?

-- 
Bharath Rupireddy
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
RDS Open Source Databases
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com



Commits

  1. Ensure standby promotion point in 043_wal_replay_wait.pl

  2. Minor cleanup related to pg_wal_replay_wait() procedure

  3. Adjust pg_wal_replay_wait() procedure behavior on promoted standby

  4. pg_wal_replay_wait(): Fix typo in the doc

  5. Implement pg_wal_replay_wait() stored procedure

  6. Revert: Implement pg_wal_replay_wait() stored procedure

  7. Call WaitLSNCleanup() in AbortTransaction()

  8. Clarify what is protected by WaitLSNLock

  9. Use an LWLock instead of a spinlock in waitlsn.c

  10. Use the pairing heap instead of a flat array for LSN replay waiters

  11. Minor improvements for waitlsn.c

  12. Make the order of the header file includes consistent