The signature of XLogReadRecord() required the caller to pass the starting
WAL position as argument, or InvalidXLogRecPtr to continue reading at the
end of previous record. That's slightly awkward to the callers, as most
of them don't want to randomly jump around in the WAL stream, but start
reading at one position and then read everything from that point onwards.
Remove the 'RecPtr' argument and add a new function XLogBeginRead() to
specify the starting position instead. That's more convenient for the
callers. Also, xlogreader holds state that is reset when you change the
starting position, so having a separate function for doing that feels like
a more natural fit.
This changes XLogFindNextRecord() function so that it doesn't reset the
xlogreader's state to what it was before the call anymore. Instead, it
positions the xlogreader to the found record, like XLogBeginRead().
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5382a7a3-debe-be31-c860-cb810c08f366%40iki.fi
Using \ is unnecessary and ugly, so remove that. While at it, stitch
the literals back into a single line: we've long discouraged splitting
error message literals even when they go past the 80 chars line limit,
to improve greppability.
Leave contrib/tablefunc alone.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191223195156.GA12271@alvherre.pgsql
This is still using the 2.0 version of pg_bsd_indent.
I thought it would be good to commit this separately,
so as to document the differences between 2.0 and 2.1 behavior.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16296.1558103386@sss.pgh.pa.us
This allows the user to create duplicates of existing replication slots,
either logical or physical, and even changing properties such as whether
they are temporary or the output plugin used.
There are multiple uses for this, such as initializing multiple replicas
using the slot for one base backup; when doing investigation of logical
replication issues; and to select a different output plugins.
Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Andres Freund, Petr Jelinek
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAm7XX8y_tOPP6j4Nzzch12FvA1wPqiO690RCk+uYVstg@mail.gmail.com
The code added by 9c7d06d606 was a bit obscure; clarify that by
rewriting the comments. Lack of clarity has already caused bugs, so
it's a worthy goal.
Co-authored-by: Arseny Sher <a.sher@postgrespro.ru>
Co-authored-by: Michaël Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Jelínek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87y3fgoyrn.fsf@ars-thinkpad
Historically, we've allowed auxiliary processes to take buffer pins without
tracking them in a ResourceOwner. However, that creates problems for error
recovery. In particular, we've seen multiple reports of assertion crashes
in the startup process when it gets an error while holding a buffer pin,
as for example if it gets ENOSPC during a write. In a non-assert build,
the process would simply exit without releasing the pin at all. We've
gotten away with that so far just because a failure exit of the startup
process translates to a database crash anyhow; but any similar behavior
in other aux processes could result in stuck pins and subsequent problems
in vacuum.
To improve this, institute a policy that we must *always* have a resowner
backing any attempt to pin a buffer, which we can enforce just by removing
the previous special-case code in resowner.c. Add infrastructure to make
it easy to create a process-lifespan AuxProcessResourceOwner and clear
out its contents at appropriate times. Replace existing ad-hoc resowner
management in bgwriter.c and other aux processes with that. (Thus, while
the startup process gains a resowner where it had none at all before, some
other aux process types are replacing an ad-hoc resowner with this code.)
Also use the AuxProcessResourceOwner to manage buffer pins taken during
StartupXLOG and ShutdownXLOG, even when those are being run in a bootstrap
process or a standalone backend rather than a true auxiliary process.
In passing, remove some other ad-hoc resource owner creations that had
gotten cargo-culted into various other places. As far as I can tell
that was all unnecessary, and if it had been necessary it was incomplete,
due to lacking any provision for clearing those resowners later.
(Also worth noting in this connection is that a process that hasn't called
InitBufferPoolBackend has no business accessing buffers; so there's more
to do than just add the resowner if we want to touch buffers in processes
not covered by this patch.)
Although this fixes a very old bug, no back-patch, because there's no
evidence of any significant problem in non-assert builds.
Patch by me, pursuant to a report from Justin Pryzby. Thanks to
Robert Haas and Kyotaro Horiguchi for reviews.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180627233939.GA10276@telsasoft.com
All attributes and arguments using a slot name map to the data type
"name", but this function has been using "text". This is cosmetic, as
even if text is used then the slot name would be truncated to 64
characters anyway and stored as such. The documentation already said
so and the function already assumed that the argument was of this type
when fetching its value.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Sawada Masahiko
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoADYz_-eAqH5AVFaCaojcRgwpo9PW=u8kgTMys63oB8Cw@mail.gmail.com
Such replication slots are physical slots freshly created without WAL
being reserved, which is the default behavior, which have not been used
yet as WAL consumption resources to retain WAL. This prevents advancing
a slot to a position older than any WAL available, which could falsify
calculations for WAL segment recycling.
This also cleans up a bit the code, as ReplicationSlotRelease() would be
called on ERROR, and improves error messages.
Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180626071305.GH31353@paquier.xyz
A review of the code has showed up a couple of issues fixed by this
commit:
- Physical slots have been using the confirmed LSN position as a start
comparison point which is always 0/0, instead use the restart LSN
position (logical slots need to use the confirmed LSN position, which
was correct).
- The actual slot update was incorrect for both physical and logical
slots. Physical slots need to use their restart_lsn as base comparison
point (confirmed_flush was used because of previous point), and logical
slots need to begin reading WAL from restart_lsn (confirmed_flush was
used as well), while confirmed_flush is compiled depending on the
decoding context and record read, and is the LSN position returned back
to the caller.
- Never return 0/0 if a slot cannot be advanced. This way, if a slot is
advanced while the activity is idle, then the same position is returned
to the caller over and over without raising an error. Instead return
the LSN the slot has been advanced to. With repetitive calls, the same
position is returned hence caller can directly monitor the difference in
progress in bytes by doing simply LSN difference calculations, which
should be monotonic.
Note that as the slot is owned by the backend advancing it, then the
read of those fields is fine lock-less, while updates need to happen
while the slot mutex is held, so fix that on the way as well. Other
locks for in-memory data of replication slots have been already fixed
previously.
Some of those issues have been pointed out by Petr and Simon during the
patch, while I noticed some of them after looking at the code. This
also visibly takes of a recently-discovered bug causing assertion
failures which can be triggered by a two-step slot forwarding which
first advanced the slot to a WAL page boundary and secondly advanced it
to the latest position, say 'FF/FFFFFFF' to make sure that the newest
LSN is used as forward point. It would have been nice to drop a test
for that, but the set of operators working on pg_lsn limits it, so this
is left for a future exercise.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek, Simon Riggs
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jLyS=X-CAk59BJnsxKQfjwrmKicHQykyn52Qj-Q=9GLCw@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2840048a-1184-417a-9da8-3299d207a1d7%40postgrespro.ru
Ability to advance both physical and logical replication slots using a
new user function pg_replication_slot_advance().
For logical advance that means records are consumed as fast as possible
and changes are not given to output plugin for sending. Makes 2nd phase
(after we reached SNAPBUILD_FULL_SNAPSHOT) of replication slot creation
faster, especially when there are big transactions as the reorder buffer
does not have to deal with data changes and does not have to spill to
disk.
Author: Petr Jelinek
Reviewed-by: Simon Riggs
Commit 9915de6c1c changed the default behavior of
DROP_REPLICATION_SLOT so that it would wait until any session holding
the slot active would release it, instead of raising an error. But
users are already depending on the original behavior, so revert to it by
default and add a WAIT option to invoke the new behavior.
Per complaint from Simone Gotti, in
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEvsy6Wgdf90O6pUvg2wSVXL2omH5OPC-38OD4Zzgk-FXavj3Q@mail.gmail.com
It is relatively easy to get a replication slot to look as still active
while one process is in the process of getting rid of it; when some
other process tries to "acquire" the slot, it would fail with an error
message of "replication slot XYZ is active for PID N".
The error message in itself is fine, except that when the intention is
to drop the slot, it is unhelpful: the useful behavior would be to wait
until the slot is no longer acquired, so that the drop can proceed. To
implement this, we use a condition variable so that slot acquisition can
be told to wait on that condition variable if the slot is already
acquired, and we make any change in active_pid broadcast a signal on the
condition variable. Thus, as soon as the slot is released, the drop
will proceed properly.
Reported by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11904.1499039688@sss.pgh.pa.us
Authors: Petr Jelínek, Álvaro Herrera
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
Lag tracking is called for each commit, but we introduce
a pacing delay to ensure we don't swamp the lag tracker.
Author: Petr Jelinek, with minor pacing delay code from me
The logical decoding machinery already preserved all the required
catalog tuples, which is sufficient in the course of normal logical
decoding, but did not guarantee that non-catalog tuples were preserved
during computation of the initial snapshot when creating a slot over
the replication protocol.
This could cause a corrupted initial snapshot being exported. The
time window for issues is usually not terribly large, but on a busy
server it's perfectly possible to it hit it. Ongoing decoding is not
affected by this bug.
To avoid increased overhead for the SQL API, only retain additional
tuples when a logical slot is being created over the replication
protocol. To do so this commit changes the signature of
CreateInitDecodingContext(), but it seems unlikely that it's being
used in an extension, so that's probably ok.
In a drive-by fix, fix handling of
ReplicationSlotsComputeRequiredXmin's already_locked argument, which
should only apply to ProcArrayLock, not ReplicationSlotControlLock.
Reported-By: Erik Rijkers
Analyzed-By: Petr Jelinek
Author: Petr Jelinek, heavily editorialized by Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9a897b86-46e1-9915-ee4c-da02e4ff6a95@2ndquadrant.com
Backport: 9.4, where logical decoding was introduced.
This allows creating temporary replication slots that are removed
automatically at the end of the session or on error.
From: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
When creating a physical slot it's often useful to immediately reserve
the current WAL position instead of only doing after the first feedback
message arrives. That e.g. allows slots to guarantee that all the WAL
for a base backup will be available afterwards.
Logical slots already have to reserve WAL during creation, so generalize
that logic into being usable for both physical and logical slots.
Catversion bump because of the new parameter.
Author: Gurjeet Singh
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: CABwTF4Wh_dBCzTU=49pFXR6coR4NW1ynb+vBqT+Po=7fuq5iCw@mail.gmail.com
There's no reason not to expose both restart_lsn and confirmed_flush
since they have rather distinct meanings. The former is the oldest WAL
still required and valid for both physical and logical slots, whereas
the latter is the location up to which a logical slot's consumer has
confirmed receiving data. Most of the time a slot will require older
WAL (i.e. restart_lsn) than the confirmed
position (i.e. confirmed_flush_lsn).
Author: Marko Tiikkaja, editorialized by me
Discussion: 559D110B.1020109@joh.to
XLogRecPtr was compared with InvalidTransactionId instead of
InvalidXLogRecPtr. As both are defined to the same value this doesn't
cause any actual problems, but it's still wrong.
Backpatch: 9.4-master, bug was introduced in 9.4
Right now it is visible whether a replication slot is active in any
session, but not in which. Adding the active_in column, containing the
pid of the backend having acquired the slot, makes it much easier to
associate pg_replication_slots entries with the corresponding
pg_stat_replication/pg_stat_activity row.
This should have been done from the start, but I (Andres) dropped the
ball there somehow.
Author: Craig Ringer, revised by me Discussion:
CAMsr+YFKgZca5_7_ouaMWxA5PneJC9LNViPzpDHusaPhU9pA7g@mail.gmail.com
This reverts commit 1826987a46.
The overall design was deemed unacceptable, in discussion following the
previous commit message; we might find some parts of it still
salvageable, but I don't want to be on the hook for fixing it, so let's
wait until we have a new patch.
The previous representation using a boolean column for each attribute
would not scale as well as we want to add further attributes.
Extra auxilliary functions are added to go along with this change, to
make up for the lost convenience of access of the old representation.
Catalog version bumped due to change in catalogs and the new functions.
Author: Adam Brightwell, minor tweaks by Álvaro
Reviewed by: Stephen Frost, Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera
Change the order of checks in similar functions to be the same; remove
a parameter that's not needed anymore; rename a memory context and
expand a couple of comments.
Per review comments from Amit Kapila
This feature, building on previous commits, allows the write-ahead log
stream to be decoded into a series of logical changes; that is,
inserts, updates, and deletes and the transactions which contain them.
It is capable of handling decoding even across changes to the schema
of the effected tables. The output format is controlled by a
so-called "output plugin"; an example is included. To make use of
this in a real replication system, the output plugin will need to be
modified to produce output in the format appropriate to that system,
and to perform filtering.
Currently, information can be extracted from the logical decoding
system only via SQL; future commits will add the ability to stream
changes via walsender.
Andres Freund, with review and other contributions from many other
people, including Álvaro Herrera, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Peter Gheogegan,
Kevin Grittner, Robert Haas, Heikki Linnakangas, Fujii Masao, Abhijit
Menon-Sen, Michael Paquier, Simon Riggs, Craig Ringer, and Steve
Singer.
The functions in slotfuncs.c don't exist in any released version,
but the changes to xlogfuncs.c represent backward-incompatibilities.
Per discussion, we're hoping that the queries using these functions
are few enough and simple enough that this won't cause too much
breakage for users.
Michael Paquier, reviewed by Andres Freund and further modified
by me.
Replication slots are a crash-safe data structure which can be created
on either a master or a standby to prevent premature removal of
write-ahead log segments needed by a standby, as well as (with
hot_standby_feedback=on) pruning of tuples whose removal would cause
replication conflicts. Slots have some advantages over existing
techniques, as explained in the documentation.
In a few places, we refer to the type of replication slots introduced
by this patch as "physical" slots, because forthcoming patches for
logical decoding will also have slots, but with somewhat different
properties.
Andres Freund and Robert Haas
Heikki Linnakangas