For the initial table data synchronization in logical replication, we use
a single transaction to copy the entire table and then synchronize the
position in the stream with the main apply worker.
There are multiple downsides of this approach: (a) We have to perform the
entire copy operation again if there is any error (network breakdown,
error in the database operation, etc.) while we synchronize the WAL
position between tablesync worker and apply worker; this will be onerous
especially for large copies, (b) Using a single transaction in the
synchronization-phase (where we can receive WAL from multiple
transactions) will have the risk of exceeding the CID limit, (c) The slot
will hold the WAL till the entire sync is complete because we never commit
till the end.
This patch solves all the above downsides by allowing multiple
transactions during the tablesync phase. The initial copy is done in a
single transaction and after that, we commit each transaction as we
receive. To allow recovery after any error or crash, we use a permanent
slot and origin to track the progress. The slot and origin will be removed
once we finish the synchronization of the table. We also remove slot and
origin of tablesync workers if the user performs DROP SUBSCRIPTION .. or
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION .. REFERESH and some of the table syncs are still not
finished.
The commands ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... REFRESH PUBLICATION and
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... SET PUBLICATION ... with refresh option as true
cannot be executed inside a transaction block because they can now drop
the slots for which we have no provision to rollback.
This will also open up the path for logical replication of 2PC
transactions on the subscriber side. Previously, we can't do that because
of the requirement of maintaining a single transaction in tablesync
workers.
Bump catalog version due to change of state in the catalog
(pg_subscription_rel).
Author: Peter Smith, Amit Kapila, and Takamichi Osumi
Reviewed-by: Ajin Cherian, Petr Jelinek, Hou Zhijie and Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1KHJxaZS-fod-0fey=0tq3=Gkn4ho=8N4-5HWiCfu0H1A@mail.gmail.com
Since the old logic was completely unaware of subtransactions, a
change made in a subsequently-aborted subtransaction would still cause
workers to be stopped at toplevel transaction commit. Fix that by
managing a stack of worker lists rather than just one.
Amit Khandekar and Robert Haas
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9eaG_mWqiOTA2LfAug-VRNn1hrhf50Xi1YroxL37QkZNg@mail.gmail.com
Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments
to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments
following #endif to not obey the general rule.
Commit e3860ffa4d wasn't actually using
the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that
tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of
code. The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be
moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's
code there. BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops
in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working
in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs. So the
net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed
one tab stop left of before. This is better all around: it leaves
more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such
cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after
the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after.
Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same
as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else.
That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage
from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent.
This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent
changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
Previously the exit handling was only able to exit from within the
main loop, and not from within the backend code it calls. Fix that by
using the standard die() SIGTERM handler, and adding the necessary
CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() call.
This requires adding yet another process-type-specific branch to
ProcessInterrupts(), which hints that we probably should generalize
that handling. But that's work for another day.
Author: Petr Jelinek
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fe072153-babd-3b5d-8052-73527a6eb657@2ndquadrant.com
After the logical replication launcher was told to wake up at
commit (for example, by a CREATE SUBSCRIPTION command), the flag to wake
up was not reset, so it would be woken up at every following commit as
well. So fix that by resetting the flag.
Also, we don't need to wake up anything if the transaction was rolled
back. Just reset the flag in that case.
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
* Be sure to reset the launcher's pid (LogicalRepCtx->launcher_pid) to 0
even when the launcher emits an error.
* Declare ApplyLauncherWakeup() as a static function because it's called
only in launcher.c.
* Previously IsBackendPId() was used to check whether the launcher's pid
was valid. IsBackendPid() was necessary because there was the bug where
the launcher's pid was not reset to 0. But now it's fixed, so IsBackendPid()
is not necessary and this patch removes it.
Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Reported-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwFDWh_Qr-q_GEMpD+qH=vYPMdVqw=ZOSY3kX_Pna9R9SA@mail.gmail.com
Add functionality for a new subscription to copy the initial data in the
tables and then sync with the ongoing apply process.
For the copying, add a new internal COPY option to have the COPY source
data provided by a callback function. The initial data copy works on
the subscriber by receiving COPY data from the publisher and then
providing it locally into a COPY that writes to the destination table.
A WAL receiver can now execute full SQL commands. This is used here to
obtain information about tables and publications.
Several new options were added to CREATE and ALTER SUBSCRIPTION to
control whether and when initial table syncing happens.
Change pg_dump option --no-create-subscription-slots to
--no-subscription-connect and use the new CREATE SUBSCRIPTION
... NOCONNECT option for that.
Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Tested-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>