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

Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>

From: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>

To: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

Cc: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>, shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2024-04-06T11:40:19Z

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Add a test for commit ac0e33136a using the injection point.
- 8a695d7998be 18.0 landed
Invalidate inactive replication slots.
- ac0e33136abc 18.0 landed
Fix incorrect slot type in BuildTupleHashTableExt
- d96d1d5152f3 18.0 cited
Allow synced slots to have their inactive_since.
- 6f132ed693b6 17.0 landed
Change last_inactive_time to inactive_since in pg_replication_slots.
- 6d49c8d4b4f4 17.0 landed
Track last_inactive_time in pg_replication_slots.
- a11f330b5584 17.0 landed
Track invalidation_reason in pg_replication_slots.
- 6ae701b4378d 17.0 landed
Add option force_initdb to PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster:init()
- ff9e1e764fcc 17.0 cited
Add a failover option to subscriptions.
- 776621a5e479 17.0 cited
Allow setting failover property in the replication command.
- 73292404370c 17.0 cited
Allow to enable failover property for replication slots via SQL API.
- c393308b69d2 17.0 cited
Track conflict_reason in pg_replication_slots.
- 007693f2a3ac 17.0 cited
Log messages for replication slot acquisition and release.
- 7c3fb505b14e 17.0 cited
Remove vacuum_defer_cleanup_age
- 1118cd37eb61 16.0 cited
Fix corruption due to vacuum_defer_cleanup_age underflowing 64bit xids
- be504a3e974d 16.0 cited
meson: Add initial version of meson based build system
- e6927270cd18 16.0 cited

Attachments

v38-0001-Add-inactive_timeout-based-replication-slot-inva.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v38-0001

On Sat, Apr 6, 2024 at 12:18 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why the handling w.r.t active_pid in InvalidatePossiblyInactiveSlot()
> is not similar to InvalidatePossiblyObsoleteSlot(). Won't we need to
> ensure that there is no other active slot user? Is it sufficient to
> check inactive_since for the same? If so, we need some comments to
> explain the same.

I removed the separate functions and with minimal changes, I've now
placed the RS_INVAL_INACTIVE_TIMEOUT logic into
InvalidatePossiblyObsoleteSlot and use that even in
CheckPointReplicationSlots.

> Can we avoid introducing the new functions like
> SaveGivenReplicationSlot() and MarkGivenReplicationSlotDirty(), if we
> do the required work in the caller?

Hm. Removed them now.

Please see the attached v38 patch.

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Bharath Rupireddy
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