RE: Synchronizing slots from primary to standby

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

From: "Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)" <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Cc: shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@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>, 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: 2024-02-22T12:50:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Thursday, February 22, 2024 8:41 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 5:23 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 4:35 PM Bertrand Drouvot
> > <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 04:01:34PM +0530, shveta malik wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 3:44 PM Bertrand Drouvot
> > > > <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks!
> > > > >
> > > > > Some random comments about v92_001 (Sorry if it has already been
> > > > > discussed
> > > > > up-thread):
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the feedback. The patch is pushed 15 minutes back.
> > >
> > > Yeah, saw that after I send the comments ;-)
> > >
> >
> > There is a BF failure. See
> >
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=prion&dt=2024-0
> 2-22%2010%3A13%3A03.
> >
> > The initial analysis suggests that for some reason, the primary went
> > down after the slot sync worker was invoked the first time. See the
> > below in the primary's LOG:
> >
> 
> The reason is that the test failed waiting on below LOG:
> 
> ### Reloading node "standby1"
> # Running: pg_ctl -D
> /home/ec2-user/bf/root/HEAD/pgsql.build/src/test/recovery/tmp_check/t_
> 040_standby_failover_slots_sync_standby1_data/pgdata
> reload
> server signaled
> timed out waiting for match: (?^:LOG:  slot sync worker started) at
> t/040_standby_failover_slots_sync.pl line 376.
> 
> Now, on standby, we see a LOG like 2024-02-22 10:57:35.432 UTC [2721638:1]
> LOG: 00000: slot sync worker started. Even then the test failed and the reason is
> that it has an extra 0000 before the actual message which is due to
> log_error_verbosity = verbose in config. I think here the test's log matching
> code needs to have a more robust log line matching code.

Agreed. Here is a small patch to change the msg in wait_for_log so that it only
search the message part.

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).