This would lead to failures if local and remote tables have a different
column order. The tests previously didn't catch that because they only
tested the initial data copy. So add another test that exercises the
apply worker.
Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
The comparison with the target rows on the subscriber side was done with
datumIsEqual(), which can have false negatives. For instance, it didn't
work reliably for text columns. So use the equality operator provided
by the type cache instead.
Also add more user documentation about replica identity requirements.
Reported-by: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>
There was a grammar ambiguity between SET PUBLICATION name REFRESH and
SET PUBLICATION SKIP REFRESH, because SKIP is not a reserved word. To
resolve that, fold the refresh choice into the WITH options. Refreshing
is the default now.
Reported-by: tushar <tushar.ahuja@enterprisedb.com>
Logical replication supports replicating between tables with different
column order. But this failed for the initial table sync because of a
logic error in how the column list for the internal COPY command was
composed. Fix that and also add a test.
Also fix a minor omission in the column name mapping cache. When
creating the mapping list, it would not skip locally dropped columns.
So if a remote column had the same name as a locally dropped
column (...pg.dropped...), then the expected error would not occur.
For CREATE/ALTER PUBLICATION/SUBSCRIPTION, use similar option style as
other statements that use a WITH clause for options.
Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Per discussion, "location" is a rather vague term that could refer to
multiple concepts. "LSN" is an unambiguous term for WAL locations and
should be preferred. Some function names, view column names, and function
output argument names used "lsn" already, but others used "location",
as well as yet other terms such as "wal_position". Since we've already
renamed a lot of things in this area from "xlog" to "wal" for v10,
we may as well incur a bit more compatibility pain and make these names
all consistent.
David Rowley, minor additional docs hacking by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f8O0njDKe8ePFQ-LK5-EjwThsDws6ohJ-+c6nWK+oUxtg@mail.gmail.com
It turned out this approach had problems, because a DROP command should
not have any options other than CASCADE and RESTRICT. Instead, always
attempt to drop the slot if there is one configured, but also add an
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION action to set the slot to NONE.
Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/29431.1493730652@sss.pgh.pa.us
Before restarting a tablesync worker for the same relation, wait
wal_retrieve_retry_interval (currently 5s by default). This avoids
restarting failing workers in a tight loop.
We keep the last start times in a hash table last_start_times that is
separate from the table_states list, because that list is cleared out on
syscache invalidation, which happens whenever a table finishes syncing.
The hash table is kept until all tables have finished syncing.
A future project might be to unify these two and keep everything in one
data structure, but for now this is a less invasive change to accomplish
the original purpose.
For the test suite, set wal_retrieve_retry_interval to its minimum
value, to not increase the test suite run time.
Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Reported-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
When sending a tuple attribute, the previous coding erroneously sent the
length byte before encoding conversion, which would lead to protocol
failures on the receiving side if the length did not match the following
string.
To fix that, use pq_sendcountedtext() for sending tuple attributes,
which takes care of all of that internally. To match the API of
pq_sendcountedtext(), send even text values without a trailing zero byte
and have the receiving end put it in place instead. This matches how
the standard FE/BE protocol behaves.
Reported-by: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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>
Commit f82ec32ac3 renamed the pg_xlog
directory to pg_wal. To make things consistent, and because "xlog" is
terrible terminology for either "transaction log" or "write-ahead log"
rename all SQL-callable functions that contain "xlog" in the name to
instead contain "wal". (Note that this may pose an upgrade hazard for
some users.)
Similarly, rename the xlog_position argument of the functions that
create slots to be called wal_position.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+Tgmob=YmA=H3DbW1YuOXnFVgBheRmyDkWcD9M8f=5bGWYEoQ@mail.gmail.com