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RE: Synchronizing slots from primary to standby

Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu) <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>

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From: "Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)" <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
To: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, shveta malik <shveta.malik@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>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.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>
Date: 2024-03-06T13:13:07Z
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On Wednesday, March 6, 2024 11:04 AM Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu) <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, March 6, 2024 9:30 AM Masahiko Sawada
> <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 4:21 PM Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)
> > <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Friday, March 1, 2024 2:11 PM Masahiko Sawada
> > <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ---
> > > > +void
> > > > +assign_standby_slot_names(const char *newval, void *extra) {
> > > > +        List      *standby_slots;
> > > > +        MemoryContext oldcxt;
> > > > +        char      *standby_slot_names_cpy = extra;
> > > > +
> > > >
> > > > Given that the newval and extra have the same data
> > > > (standby_slot_names value), why do we not use newval instead? I
> > > > think that if we use newval, we don't need to guc_strdup() in
> > > > check_standby_slot_names(), we might need to do list_copy_deep()
> > > > instead, though. It's not clear to me as there is no comment.
> > >
> > > I think SplitIdentifierString will modify the passed in string, so
> > > we'd better not pass the newval to it, otherwise the stored guc
> > > string(standby_slot_names) will be changed. I can see we are doing
> > > similar thing in other GUC check/assign function as well.
> > > (check_wal_consistency_checking/ assign_wal_consistency_checking,
> > > check_createrole_self_grant/ assign_createrole_self_grant ...).
> >
> > Why does it have to be a List in the first place?
> 
> I thought the List type is convenient to use here, as we have existing list build
> function(SplitIdentifierString), and have convenient list macro to loop the
> list(foreach_ptr) which can save some codes.
> 
> > In earlier version patches, we
> > used to copy the list and delete the element until it became empty,
> > while waiting for physical wal senders. But we now just refer to each
> > slot name in the list. The current code assumes that
> > stnadby_slot_names_cpy is allocated in GUCMemoryContext but once it
> > changes, it will silently get broken. I think we can check and assign
> > standby_slot_names in a similar way to check/assign_temp_tablespaces
> > and check/assign_synchronous_standby_names.
> 
> Yes, we could do follow it by allocating an array and copy each slot name into it,
> but it also requires some codes to build and scan the array. So, is it possible to
> expose the GucMemorycontext or have an API like guc_copy_list instead ?
> If we don't want to touch the guc api, I am ok with using an array as well.

I rethink about this and realize that it's not good to do the memory allocation
in assign hook function. As the "src/backend/utils/misc/README" said, we'd better
do that in check hook function and pass it via extra to assign hook function. And thus
array is a good choice in this case rather than a List which cannot be passed to *extra.

Here is the V107 patch set which parse and cache the standby slot names in an
array instead of a List.

Best Regards,
Hou zj

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).