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

Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>

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From: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
To: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Cc: shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-03-26T07:45:19Z
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  1. Add a test for commit ac0e33136a using the injection point.

  2. Invalidate inactive replication slots.

  3. Fix incorrect slot type in BuildTupleHashTableExt

  4. Allow synced slots to have their inactive_since.

  5. Change last_inactive_time to inactive_since in pg_replication_slots.

  6. Track last_inactive_time in pg_replication_slots.

  7. Track invalidation_reason in pg_replication_slots.

  8. Add option force_initdb to PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster:init()

  9. Add a failover option to subscriptions.

  10. Allow setting failover property in the replication command.

  11. Allow to enable failover property for replication slots via SQL API.

  12. Track conflict_reason in pg_replication_slots.

  13. Log messages for replication slot acquisition and release.

  14. Remove vacuum_defer_cleanup_age

  15. Fix corruption due to vacuum_defer_cleanup_age underflowing 64bit xids

  16. meson: Add initial version of meson based build system

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 11:07:51AM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 9:30 AM shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com> wrote:
> > But immediately after promotion, we can not rely on the above check
> > and thus possibility of synced slots invalidation is there. To
> > maintain consistent behavior regarding the setting of
> > last_inactive_time for synced slots, similar to user slots, one
> > potential solution to prevent this invalidation issue is to update the
> > last_inactive_time of all synced slots within the ShutDownSlotSync()
> > function during FinishWalRecovery(). This approach ensures that
> > promotion doesn't immediately invalidate slots, and henceforth, we
> > possess a correct last_inactive_time as a basis for invalidation going
> > forward. This will be equivalent to updating last_inactive_time during
> > restart (but without actual restart during promotion).
> > The plus point of maintaining last_inactive_time for synced slots
> > could be, this can provide data to the user on when last time the sync
> > was attempted on that particular slot by background slot sync worker
> > or SQl function. Thoughts?
> 
> Please find the attached v21 patch implementing the above idea. It
> also has changes for renaming last_inactive_time to inactive_since.

Thanks!

A few comments:

1 ===

One trailing whitespace:

Applying: Fix review comments for slot's last_inactive_time property
.git/rebase-apply/patch:433: trailing whitespace.
# got a valid inactive_since value representing the last slot sync time.
warning: 1 line adds whitespace errors.

2 ===

It looks like inactive_since is set to the current timestamp on the standby
each time the sync worker does a cycle:

primary:

postgres=# select slot_name,inactive_since from pg_replication_slots where failover = 't';
  slot_name  |        inactive_since
-------------+-------------------------------
 lsub27_slot | 2024-03-26 07:39:19.745517+00
 lsub28_slot | 2024-03-26 07:40:24.953826+00

standby:

postgres=# select slot_name,inactive_since from pg_replication_slots where failover = 't';
  slot_name  |        inactive_since
-------------+-------------------------------
 lsub27_slot | 2024-03-26 07:43:56.387324+00
 lsub28_slot | 2024-03-26 07:43:56.387338+00

I don't think that should be the case.

Regards,

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Bertrand Drouvot
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