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Re: Implement waiting for wal lsn replay: reloaded

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Xuneng Zhou <xunengzhou@gmail.com>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>, Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>, Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>, Yura Sokolov <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>
Date: 2026-01-07T00:32:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On 2026-01-06 18:42:59 +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Could this be causing the recent flapping failures on CI/macOS in
> recovery/031_recovery_conflict?  I didn't have time to dig personally
> but f30848cb looks relevant:
> 
> Waiting for replication conn standby's replay_lsn to pass 0/03467F58 on primary
> error running SQL: 'psql:<stdin>:1: ERROR:  canceling statement due to
> conflict with recovery
> DETAIL:  User was or might have been using tablespace that must be dropped.'
> while running 'psql --no-psqlrc --no-align --tuples-only --quiet
> --dbname port=25195
> host=/var/folders/g9/7rkt8rt1241bwwhd3_s8ndp40000gn/T/LqcCJnsueI
> dbname='postgres' --file - --variable ON_ERROR_STOP=1' with sql 'WAIT
> FOR LSN '0/03467F58' WITH (MODE 'standby_replay', timeout '180s',
> no_throw);' at /Users/admin/pgsql/src/test/perl/PostgreSQL/Test/Cluster.pm
> line 2300.
> 
> https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5771274900733952
> 
> The master branch in time-descending order, macOS tasks only:
> 
>      task_id      | substring |  status
> ------------------+-----------+-----------
>  6460882231754752 | c970bdc0  | FAILED
>  5771274900733952 | 6ca8506e  | FAILED
>  6217757068361728 | 63ed3bc7  | FAILED
>  5980650261446656 | ae283736  | FAILED
>  6585898394976256 | 5f13999a  | COMPLETED
>  4527474786172928 | 7f9acc9b  | COMPLETED
>  4826100842364928 | e8d4e94a  | COMPLETED
>  4540563027918848 | b9ee5f2d  | FAILED
>  6358528648019968 | c5af141c  | FAILED
>  5998005284765696 | e212a0f8  | COMPLETED
>  6488580526178304 | b85d5dc0  | FAILED
>  5034091344560128 | 7dc95cc3  | ABORTED
>  5688692477526016 | bb048e31  | COMPLETED
>  5481187977723904 | d351063e  | COMPLETED
>  5101831568752640 | f30848cb  | COMPLETED <-- the change
>  6395317408497664 | 3f33b63d  | COMPLETED
>  6741325208354816 | 877ae5db  | COMPLETED
>  4594007789010944 | de746e0d  | COMPLETED
>  6497208998035456 | 461b8cc9  | COMPLETED

The failure rates of this are very high - the majority of the CI runs on the
postgres/postgres repos failed since the change went in. Which then also means
cfbot has a very high spurious failure rate. I think we need to revert this
change until the problem has been verified as fixed.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

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  1. Clean up 019_replslot_limit.pl comments

  2. Stabilize 019_replslot_limit.pl: wait on slot restart_lsn

  3. Fix memory ordering in WAIT FOR LSN wakeup mechanism

  4. Improve WAIT FOR LSN test coverage

  5. Remove redundant WAIT FOR LSN caller-side pre-checks

  6. Use barrier semantics when reading/writing writtenUpto

  7. Use replay position as floor for WAIT FOR LSN standby_(write|flush)

  8. Wake standby_write/standby_flush waiters from the WAL replay loop

  9. Minimal fix for WAIT FOR ... MODE 'standby_flush'

  10. Avoid syscache lookup while building a WAIT FOR tuple descriptor

  11. Document that WAIT FOR may be interrupted by recovery conflicts

  12. Use WAIT FOR LSN in PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster::wait_for_catchup()

  13. Wake LSN waiters before recovery target stop

  14. Remove redundant pg_unreachable() after elog(ERROR) from ExecWaitStmt()

  15. Revert "Use WAIT FOR LSN in PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster::wait_for_catchup()"

  16. Fix variable usage in wakeupWaiters()

  17. Add tab completion for the WAIT FOR LSN MODE option

  18. Add the MODE option to the WAIT FOR LSN command

  19. Extend xlogwait infrastructure with write and flush wait types

  20. Unify error messages

  21. Optimize shared memory usage for WaitLSNProcInfo

  22. Fix WaitLSNWakeup() fast-path check for InvalidXLogRecPtr

  23. Fix incorrect function name in comments

  24. Add infrastructure for efficient LSN waiting

  25. Add pairingheap_initialize() for shared memory usage

  26. Implement WAIT FOR command