The new combined WAL record is now used for pruning, freezing and 2nd
pass of vacuum. This is in preparation for changing VACUUM to write a
combined prune+freeze record per page, instead of separate two
records. The new WAL record format now supports that, but the code
still always writes separate records for pruning and freezing.
This reserves separate XLOG_HEAP2_* info codes for when the pruning
record is emitted for on-access pruning or VACUUM, per Peter
Geoghegan's suggestion. The record format is identical, but having
separate info codes makes it easier analyze pruning and vacuuming with
pg_waldump.
The function to emit the new WAL record, log_heap_prune_and_freeze(),
is in pruneheap.c. The existing heap_log_freeze_plan() and its
subroutines are moved to pruneheap.c without changes, to keep them
together with log_heap_prune_and_freeze().
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAKRu_azf-zH%3DDgVbquZ3tFWjMY1w5pO8m-TXJaMdri8z3933g@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAKRu_b2oE4GL%3Dq4g9mcByS9yT7wTQvEH9OLpabj28e%2BWKFi2A@mail.gmail.com
This commit adds a new property called last_inactive_time for slots. It is
set to 0 whenever a slot is made active/acquired and set to the current
timestamp whenever the slot is inactive/released or restored from the disk.
Note that we don't set the last_inactive_time for the slots currently being
synced from the primary to the standby because such slots are typically
inactive as decoding is not allowed on those.
The 'last_inactive_time' will be useful on production servers to debug and
analyze inactive replication slots. It will also help to know the lifetime
of a replication slot - one can know how long a streaming standby, logical
subscriber, or replication slot consumer is down.
The 'last_inactive_time' will also be useful to implement inactive
timeout-based replication slot invalidation in a future commit.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Amit Kapila, Shveta Malik
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CALj2ACW4aUe-_uFQOjdWCEN-xXoLGhmvRFnL8SNw_TZ5nJe+aw@mail.gmail.com
Till now, the reason for replication slot invalidation is not tracked
directly in pg_replication_slots. A recent commit 007693f2a3 added
'conflict_reason' to show the reasons for slot conflict/invalidation, but
only for logical slots.
This commit adds a new column 'invalidation_reason' to show invalidation
reasons for both physical and logical slots. And, this commit also turns
'conflict_reason' text column to 'conflicting' boolean column (effectively
reverting commit 007693f2a3). The 'conflicting' column is true for
invalidation reasons 'rows_removed' and 'wal_level_insufficient' because
those make the slot conflict with recovery. When 'conflicting' is true,
one can now look at the new 'invalidation_reason' column for the reason
for the logical slot's conflict with recovery.
The new 'invalidation_reason' column will also be useful to track other
invalidation reasons in the future commit.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Amit Kapila, Shveta Malik
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ZfR7HuzFEswakt/a%40ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CALj2ACW4aUe-_uFQOjdWCEN-xXoLGhmvRFnL8SNw_TZ5nJe+aw@mail.gmail.com
Introduce new postmaster_child_launch() function that deals with the
differences in EXEC_BACKEND mode.
Refactor the mechanism of passing information from the parent to child
process. Instead of using different command-line arguments when
launching the child process in EXEC_BACKEND mode, pass a
variable-length blob of startup data along with all the global
variables. The contents of that blob depend on the kind of child
process being launched. In !EXEC_BACKEND mode, we use the same blob,
but it's simply inherited from the parent to child process.
Reviewed-by: Tristan Partin, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7a59b073-5b5b-151e-7ed3-8b01ff7ce9ef@iki.fi
The code path in charge of invalidating a replication slot includes a
call to pgstat_drop_replslot(), which would result in removing the
statistics of the slot once invalidated. However, there is no need to
remove the statistics of an invalidated slot as one could still be
interested in looking at them to understand the activity of the slot
until its actual removal.
The initial design of the feature committed in be87200efd used the
approach to drop the slots, which is likely why the statistics were
still removed during the invalidation.
Another problem with this operation is that it was done without holding
ReplicationSlotAllocationLock, leaving it unprotected on concurrent
activity. This part is arguably a bug, but that's a limited problem in
practice so no backpatch is done.
In passing, this commit adds a test to check this behavior. The only
remaining code path where slot statistics are dropped now related to the
slot getting dropped.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZermH08Eq6YydHpO@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
In WalSndWaitForWal(), we fetch a recent flush pointer both outside the
loop and inside the loop. But we start using RecentFlushPtr only after we
fetch it inside the loop. So we can remove one outside the loop.
Author: Shveta Malik
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Matthias van de Meent, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJpy0uBSCQz1yMD-WiEthzEe23dti2-Kr_pitVb7vAPFbFKm=A@mail.gmail.com
... and in particular don't return them as replica identity.
The motivation for this change is letting the primary keys be seen by
code that derives NOT NULL constraints from them, when creating
inheritance children; before this change, if you had a deferrable PK,
pg_dump would not recreate the attnotnull marking properly, because the
column would not be considered as having anything to back said marking
after dropping the throwaway NOT NULL constraint.
The reason we don't want these PKs as replica identities is that
replication can corrupt data, if the uniqueness constraint is
transiently broken.
Reported-by: Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b94QonkgsbDXofakHDnORQNgafd1y3Oa5QXfpQNJyXyQ7A@mail.gmail.com
This patch provides a way to ensure that physical standbys that are
potential failover candidates have received and flushed changes before
the primary server making them visible to subscribers. Doing so guarantees
that the promoted standby server is not lagging behind the subscribers
when a failover is necessary.
The logical walsender now guarantees that all local changes are sent and
flushed to the standby servers corresponding to the replication slots
specified in 'standby_slot_names' before sending those changes to the
subscriber.
Additionally, the SQL functions pg_logical_slot_get_changes,
pg_logical_slot_peek_changes and pg_replication_slot_advance are modified
to ensure that they process changes for failover slots only after physical
slots specified in 'standby_slot_names' have confirmed WAL receipt for those.
Author: Hou Zhijie and Shveta Malik
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Peter Smith, Bertrand Drouvot, Ajin Cherian, Nisha Moond, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/514f6f2f-6833-4539-39f1-96cd1e011f23@enterprisedb.com
This reverts commit 08a52ab151, due to some sporadic instability in
the test. Getting the test right should require some redesign with a
second injection point, but let's revert it for now to avoid these
issues in the CI as a lot of patches are under discussion in this last
commit fest.
Per buildfarm members hachi and gokiburi.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZekQQHCrIqLVpGz5@paquier.xyz
This commit adds a recovery test to provide coverage for the bug fixed
in 818fefd8fd, using an injection point to wait just after the process
of an active slot is killed. The trick is to give enough time for
effective_xmin and effective_catalog_xmin to advance so as the slot
invalidation robustness can be checked since the active process is
killed without holding its slot's mutex for a short time.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZdyZya4YrNapWKqz@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
as determined by include-what-you-use (IWYU)
While IWYU also suggests to *add* a bunch of #include's (which is its
main purpose), this patch does not do that. In some cases, a more
specific #include replaces another less specific one.
Some manual adjustments of the automatic result:
- IWYU currently doesn't know about includes that provide global
variable declarations (like -Wmissing-variable-declarations), so
those includes are being kept manually.
- All includes for port(ability) headers are being kept for now, to
play it safe.
- No changes of catalog/pg_foo.h to catalog/pg_foo_d.h, to keep the
patch from exploding in size.
Note that this patch touches just *.c files, so nothing declared in
header files changes in hidden ways.
As a small example, in src/backend/access/transam/rmgr.c, some IWYU
pragma annotations are added to handle a special case there.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/af837490-6b2f-46df-ba05-37ea6a6653fc%40eisentraut.org
Remove IsBackgroundWorker, IsAutoVacuumLauncherProcess(),
IsAutoVacuumWorkerProcess(), and IsLogicalSlotSyncWorker() in favor of
new Am*Process() macros that use MyBackendType. For consistency with
the existing Am*Process() macros.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/f3ecd4cb-85ee-4e54-8278-5fabfb3a4ed0@iki.fi
Now that BackendId was just another index into the proc array, it was
redundant with the 0-based proc numbers used in other places. Replace
all usage of backend IDs with proc numbers.
The only place where the term "backend id" remains is in a few pgstat
functions that expose backend IDs at the SQL level. Those IDs are now
in fact 0-based ProcNumbers too, but the documentation still calls
them "backend ids". That term still seems appropriate to describe what
the numbers are, so I let it be.
One user-visible effect is that pg_temp_0 is now a valid temp schema
name, for backend with ProcNumber 0.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/8171f1aa-496f-46a6-afc3-c46fe7a9b407@iki.fi
Presently, string keys are not well-supported for dshash tables.
The dshash code always copies key_size bytes into new entries'
keys, and dshash.h only provides compare and hash functions that
forward to memcmp() and tag_hash(), both of which do not stop at
the first NUL. This means that callers must pad string keys so
that the data beyond the first NUL does not adversely affect the
results of copying, comparing, and hashing the keys.
To better support string keys in dshash tables, this commit does
a couple things:
* A new copy_function field is added to the dshash_parameters
struct. This function pointer specifies how the key should be
copied into new table entries. For example, we only want to copy
up to the first NUL byte for string keys. A dshash_memcpy()
helper function is provided and used for all existing in-tree
dshash tables without string keys.
* A set of helper functions for string keys are provided. These
helper functions forward to strcmp(), strcpy(), and
string_hash(), all of which ignore data beyond the first NUL.
This commit also adjusts the DSM registry's dshash table to use the
new helper functions for string keys.
Reviewed-by: Andy Fan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240119215941.GA1322079%40nathanxps13
A couple of dshash_create() callers provide 0 for the 'void *arg'
argument, which might give readers the incorrect impression that
this is some sort of "flags" parameter.
Reviewed-by: Andy Fan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240119215941.GA1322079%40nathanxps13
943f7ae1c8 has changed GetSlotInvalidationCause() so as it would
return the last element of SlotInvalidationCauses[] when an incorrect
conflict reason name is given by a caller, but this should return
RS_INVAL_NONE in such cases, even if such a state should never be
reached in practice.
Per gripe from Peter Smith.
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PtsrSWxczpGkSaSVtJo+BXrvJ3Hwp5gES14bbL-G+HL7A@mail.gmail.com
By enabling slot synchronization, all the failover logical replication
slots on the primary (assuming configurations are appropriate) are
automatically created on the physical standbys and are synced
periodically. The slot sync worker on the standby server pings the primary
server at regular intervals to get the necessary failover logical slots
information and create/update the slots locally. The slots that no longer
require synchronization are automatically dropped by the worker.
The nap time of the worker is tuned according to the activity on the
primary. The slot sync worker waits for some time before the next
synchronization, with the duration varying based on whether any slots were
updated during the last cycle.
A new parameter sync_replication_slots enables or disables this new
process.
On promotion, the slot sync worker is shut down by the startup process to
drop any temporary slots acquired by the slot sync worker and to prevent
the worker from trying to fetch the failover slots.
A functionality to allow logical walsenders to wait for the physical will
be done in a subsequent commit.
Author: Shveta Malik, Hou Zhijie based on design inputs by Masahiko Sawada and Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Bertrand Drouvot, Peter Smith, Dilip Kumar, Ajin Cherian, Nisha Moond, Kuroda Hayato, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/514f6f2f-6833-4539-39f1-96cd1e011f23@enterprisedb.com
This commit switches the handling of the conflict cause strings for
replication slots to use a table rather than being explicitly listed,
using a C99-designated initializer syntax for the array elements. This
makes the whole more readable while easing future maintenance with less
areas to update when adding a new conflict reason.
This is similar to 74a7306310, but the scale of the change is smaller
as there are less conflict causes than LWLock builtin tranche names.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACUxSLA91QGFrJsWNKs58KXb1C03mbuwKmzqqmoAKLwJaw@mail.gmail.com
The invalidation of an active slot is done in two steps:
- Termination of the backend holding it, if any.
- Report that the slot is obsolete, with a conflict cause depending on
the slot's data.
This can be racy because between these two steps the slot mutex would be
released while doing system calls, which means that the effective_xmin
and effective_catalog_xmin could advance during that time, detecting a
conflict cause different than the one originally wanted before the
process owning a slot is terminated.
Holding the mutex longer is not an option, so this commit changes the
code to record the LSNs stored in the slot during the termination of the
process owning the slot.
Bonus thanks to Alexander Lakhin for the various tests and the analysis.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZaTjW2Xh+TQUCOH0@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
Backpatch-through: 16
Commit 6b80394781 introduced integer comparison functions designed
to be as efficient as possible while avoiding overflow. This
commit makes use of these functions in many of the in-tree qsort()
comparators to help ensure transitivity. Many of these comparator
functions should also see a small performance boost.
Author: Mats Kindahl
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Fabrízio de Royes Mello
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2B14426g2Wa9QuUpmakwPxXFWG_1FaY0AsApkvcTBy-YfS6uaw%40mail.gmail.com
Previously, some callers requested XLOG_BLCKSZ bytes
unconditionally. While this did not cause a problem, because the extra
bytes are ignored, it's confusing and makes it harder to add safety
checks. Additionally, the comment about zero padding was incorrect.
With this commit, all callers request the number of bytes they
actually need.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACWBRFac2TingD3PE3w2EBHXUHY3=AEEZPJmqhpEOBGExg@mail.gmail.com
Presently, we rely on each individual signal handler to save the
initial value of errno and then restore it before returning if
needed. This is easily forgotten and, if missed, often goes
undetected for a long time.
In commit 3b00fdba9f, we introduced a wrapper signal handler
function that checks whether MyProcPid matches getpid(). This
commit moves the aforementioned errno restoration code from the
individual signal handlers to the new wrapper handler so that we no
longer need to worry about missing it.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Noah Misch
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231121212008.GA3742740%40nathanxps13
This commit introduces a new SQL function pg_sync_replication_slots()
which is used to synchronize the logical replication slots from the
primary server to the physical standby so that logical replication can be
resumed after a failover or planned switchover.
A new 'synced' flag is introduced in pg_replication_slots view, indicating
whether the slot has been synchronized from the primary server. On a
standby, synced slots cannot be dropped or consumed, and any attempt to
perform logical decoding on them will result in an error.
The logical replication slots on the primary can be synchronized to the
hot standby by using the 'failover' parameter of
pg-create-logical-replication-slot(), or by using the 'failover' option of
CREATE SUBSCRIPTION during slot creation, and then calling
pg_sync_replication_slots() on standby. For the synchronization to work,
it is mandatory to have a physical replication slot between the primary
and the standby aka 'primary_slot_name' should be configured on the
standby, and 'hot_standby_feedback' must be enabled on the standby. It is
also necessary to specify a valid 'dbname' in the 'primary_conninfo'.
If a logical slot is invalidated on the primary, then that slot on the
standby is also invalidated.
If a logical slot on the primary is valid but is invalidated on the
standby, then that slot is dropped but will be recreated on the standby in
the next pg_sync_replication_slots() call provided the slot still exists
on the primary server. It is okay to recreate such slots as long as these
are not consumable on standby (which is the case currently). This
situation may occur due to the following reasons:
- The 'max_slot_wal_keep_size' on the standby is insufficient to retain
WAL records from the restart_lsn of the slot.
- 'primary_slot_name' is temporarily reset to null and the physical slot
is removed.
The slot synchronization status on the standby can be monitored using the
'synced' column of pg_replication_slots view.
A functionality to automatically synchronize slots by a background worker
and allow logical walsenders to wait for the physical will be done in
subsequent commits.
Author: Hou Zhijie, Shveta Malik, Ajin Cherian based on an earlier version by Peter Eisentraut
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Bertrand Drouvot, Peter Smith, Dilip Kumar, Nisha Moond, Kuroda Hayato, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/514f6f2f-6833-4539-39f1-96cd1e011f23@enterprisedb.com
If available, read directly from WAL buffers, avoiding the need to go
through the filesystem. Only for physical replication for now, but can
be expanded to other callers.
In preparation for replicating unflushed WAL data.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACXKKK%3DwbiG5_t6dGao5GoecMwRkhr7GjVBM_jg54%2BNa%3DQ%40mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Nathan Bossart, Dilip Kumar, Nitin Jadhav, Melih Mutlu, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Following are a few clean-ups related to failover option support in slots:
1. Improve the documentation in create_subscription.sgml.
2. Remove the spurious blank line in subscriptioncmds.c.
3. Remove the NOTICE for alter_replication_slot in subscriptioncmds.c as
we would sometimes print it even when nothing has changed. One can find
the change by enabling log_replication_commands on the publisher.
4. Optimize ReplicationSlotAlter() function to prevent disk flushing when
the slot's data remains unchanged.
Author: Hou Zhijie
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/514f6f2f-6833-4539-39f1-96cd1e011f23@enterprisedb.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB57164904651FB588A518E98894472@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
This patch provides support for regular (non-replication) connections in
libpqrcv_connect(). This can be used to execute SQL statements on the
primary server without starting a walsender.
A new API libpqrcv_get_dbname_from_conninfo() is also added to extract the
database name from the given connection-info.
Note that this patch doesn't change any existing functionality but later
patches implementing the slot synchronization will use this functionality
to connect to the primary server to fetch required slot information.
Author: Shveta Malik, Hou Zhijie, Ajin Cherian
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Bertrand Drouvot, Dilip Kumar, Masahiko Sawada, Nisha Moond, Kuroda Hayato, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/514f6f2f-6833-4539-39f1-96cd1e011f23@enterprisedb.com
This commit introduces a new subscription option named 'failover', which
provides users with the ability to set the failover property of the
replication slot on the publisher when creating or altering a
subscription.
This uses the replication commands introduced by commit 7329240437 to
enable the failover option for a logical replication slot.
If the failover option is set to true, the associated replication slots
(i.e. the main slot and the table sync slots) in the upstream database are
enabled to be synchronized to the standbys. Note that the capability to
sync the replication slots will be added in subsequent commits.
Thanks to Masahiko Sawada for the design inputs.
Author: Shveta Malik, Hou Zhijie, Ajin Cherian
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Bertrand Drouvot, Dilip Kumar, Masahiko Sawada, Nisha Moond, Kuroda Hayato, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/514f6f2f-6833-4539-39f1-96cd1e011f23@enterprisedb.com
This commit implements a new replication command called
ALTER_REPLICATION_SLOT and a corresponding walreceiver API function named
walrcv_alter_slot. Additionally, the CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT command has
been extended to support the failover option.
These new additions allow the modification of the failover property of a
replication slot on the publisher. A subsequent commit will make use of
these commands in subscription commands and will add the tests as well to
cover the functionality added/changed by this commit.
Author: Hou Zhijie, Shveta Malik
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Bertrand Drouvot, Dilip Kumar, Masahiko Sawada, Nisha Moond, Kuroda, Hayato, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/514f6f2f-6833-4539-39f1-96cd1e011f23@enterprisedb.com
Since commit a4ccc1cef, the 'node' and 'alloc_tuple_size' fields of
the ReorderBufferTupleBuf structure are no longer used. This leaves
only the 'tuple' field in the structure. Since keeping a single-field
structure makes little sense, the ReorderBufferTupleBuf is removed
entirely. The code is refactored accordingly.
No back-patching since these are ABI changes in an exposed structure
and functions, and there would be some risk of breaking extensions.
Author: Aleksander Alekseev
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Masahiko Sawada, Reid Thompson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoCvnuxiXXfRecp7g9+CeC35POQfhuQeJFr7_9u_Q5jc_Q@mail.gmail.com
This commit adds the failover property to the replication slot. The
failover property indicates whether the slot will be synced to the standby
servers, enabling the resumption of corresponding logical replication
after failover. But note that this commit does not yet include the
capability to sync the replication slot; the subsequent commits will add
that capability.
A new optional parameter 'failover' is added to the
pg_create_logical_replication_slot() function. We will also enable to set
'failover' option for slots via the subscription commands in the
subsequent commits.
The value of the 'failover' flag is displayed as part of
pg_replication_slots view.
Author: Hou Zhijie, Shveta Malik, Ajin Cherian
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Bertrand Drouvot, Dilip Kumar, Masahiko Sawada, Nisha Moond, Kuroda, Hayato, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/514f6f2f-6833-4539-39f1-96cd1e011f23@enterprisedb.com
This reverts commit 728f86fec6.
The signal handling was a few bricks shy of a load in that commit,
which made the walreceiver non-responsive to SIGTERM while it was
waiting for the connection to be established. That prevented a standby
from being promoted.
Since it was non-essential refactoring, let's revert it to make v16
work the same as earlier releases. I reverted it in 'master' too, to
keep the branches in sync. The refactoring was a good idea as such,
but it needs a bit more work. Once we have developed a complete patch
with this issue fixed, let's re-apply that to 'master'.
Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Backpatch-through: 16
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20231231.200741.1078989336605759878.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
A superuser may create a subscription with password_required=true, but
which uses a connection string without a password.
Previously, if the owner of such a subscription was changed to a
non-superuser, the non-superuser was able to utilize a password from
another source (like a password file or the PGPASSWORD environment
variable), which should not have been allowed.
This commit adds a step to re-validate the connection string before
connecting.
Reported-by: Jeff Davis
Author: Vignesh C
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Robert Haas, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e5892973ae2a80a1a3e0266806640dae3c428100.camel%40j-davis.com
Backpatch-through: 16
This is a rework of 7021d3b176, where we relied on forcing
max_logical_replication_workers to 0 in the postgres command. This
commit now prevents logical replication launchers to start using -b and
a backend-side check based on IsBinaryUpgrade, effective when upgrading
from 17 and newer versions.
This commit improves the comments explaining why this restriction is
necessary.
This discussion was on hold until we were sure how to add support for
subscribers in pg_upgrade, something now done thanks to 9a17be1e24.
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Amit Kapila, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZU2TeVkUg5qEi7Oy@paquier.xyz
This replaces dblink's blocking libpq calls, allowing cancellation and
allowing DROP DATABASE (of a database not involved in the query). Apart
from explicit dblink_cancel_query() calls, dblink still doesn't cancel
the remote side. The replacement for the blocking calls consists of
new, general-purpose query execution wrappers in the libpqsrv facility.
Out-of-tree extensions should adopt these. Use them in postgres_fdw,
replacing a local implementation from which the libpqsrv implementation
derives. This is a bug fix for dblink. Code inspection identified the
bug at least thirteen years ago, but user complaints have not appeared.
Hence, no back-patch for now.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231122012945.74@rfd.leadboat.com
