RE: Conflict detection for update_deleted in logical replication

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

From: "Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)" <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
To: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Cc: "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>, Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-11-05T02:24:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Monday, October 28, 2024 1:40 PM Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Hou-San, here are a few trivial comments remaining for patch v6-0001.

Thanks for the comments!

> 
> ======
> doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml
> 
> 3.
> +        <term>Primary status update (B)</term>
> +        <listitem>
> +         <variablelist>
> +          <varlistentry>
> +           <term>Byte1('s')</term>
> 
> Currently, there are identifiers 's' for the "Primary status update"
> message, and 'S' for the "Primary status request" message.
> 
> As mentioned in the previous review ([1] #5b) I preferred it to be the other way
> around:
> 'S' = status from primary
> 's' = request status from primary
> 
> Of course, it doesn't make any difference, but "S" seems more important than
> "s", so therefore "S" being the main msg and coming from the *primary*
> seemed more natural to me.

I am not sure if one message is more important than another, so I prefer to
keep the current style. Since this is a minor issue, we can easily revise it in
future version patches if we receive additional feedback.

Other comments look good to me and will address in V7 patch set.

Best Regards,
Hou zj

Commits

  1. Fix intermittent BF failures in 035_conflicts.

  2. Resume conflict-relevant data retention automatically.

  3. Fix intermittent test failure introduced in 6456c6e2c4.

  4. Fix Coverity issue reported in commit a850be2fe.

  5. Add test to prevent premature removal of conflict-relevant data.

  6. Post-commit review fixes for 228c370868.

  7. Add max_retention_duration option to subscriptions.

  8. Detect and report update_deleted conflicts.

  9. Preserve conflict-relevant data during logical replication.

  10. Integrate FullTransactionIds deeper into two-phase code

  11. Improve checks for GUC recovery_target_timeline

  12. Prevent excessive delays before launching new logrep workers.

  13. Keep WAL segments by slot's last saved restart LSN

  14. Rework some code handling pg_subscription data in psql and pg_dump

  15. Use generateClonedIndexStmt to propagate CREATE INDEX to partitions.