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
replorigin_drop() misunderstood the API for condition variables: it
had ConditionVariablePrepareToSleep and ConditionVariableCancelSleep
inside its test-and-sleep loop, rather than outside the loop as
intended. The net effect is a narrow race-condition window wherein,
if the process using a replication slot releases it immediately after
replorigin_drop() releases the ReplicationOriginLock, replorigin_drop()
would get into the condition variable's wait list too late and then
wait indefinitely for a signal that won't come.
Because there's a different CV for each replication slot, we can't
just move the ConditionVariablePrepareToSleep call to above the
test-and-sleep loop. What we can do, in the wake of commit 13db3b936,
is drop the ConditionVariablePrepareToSleep call entirely. This fix
depends on that commit because (at least in principle) the slot matching
the target replication origin might move around, so that once in a blue
moon successive loop iterations might involve different CVs. We can now
cope with such a scenario, at the cost of an extra trip through the
retry loop.
(There are ways we could fix this bug without depending on that commit,
but they're all a lot more complicated than this way.)
While at it, upgrade the rather skimpy comments in this function.
Back-patch to v10 where this code came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19947.1515455433@sss.pgh.pa.us
Logical decoding's reorderbuffer.c may spill transaction files to disk
when transactions are large. These are supposed to be removed when they
become "too old" by xid; but file removal requires the boundary LSNs of
the transaction to be known. The final_lsn is only set when we see the
commit or abort record for the transaction, but nothing sets the value
for transactions that crash, so the removal code misbehaves -- in
assertion-enabled builds, it crashes by a failed assertion.
To fix, modify the final_lsn of transactions that don't have a value
set, to the LSN of the very latest change in the transaction. This
causes the spilled files to be removed appropriately.
Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI, Craig Ringer, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/54e4e488-186b-a056-6628-50628e4e4ebc@lab.ntt.co.jp
This patch makes a number of interrelated changes to reduce the overhead
involved in creating/deleting memory contexts. The key ideas are:
* Include the AllocSetContext header of an aset.c context in its first
malloc request, rather than allocating it separately in TopMemoryContext.
This means that we now always create an initial or "keeper" block in an
aset, even if it never receives any allocation requests.
* Create freelists in which we can save and recycle recently-destroyed
asets (this idea is due to Robert Haas).
* In the common case where the name of a context is a constant string,
just store a pointer to it in the context header, rather than copying
the string.
The first change eliminates a palloc/pfree cycle per context, and
also avoids bloat in TopMemoryContext, at the price that creating
a context now involves a malloc/free cycle even if the context never
receives any allocations. That would be a loser for some common
usage patterns, but recycling short-lived contexts via the freelist
eliminates that pain.
Avoiding copying constant strings not only saves strlen() and strcpy()
overhead, but is an essential part of the freelist optimization because
it makes the context header size constant. Currently we make no
attempt to use the freelist for contexts with non-constant names.
(Perhaps someday we'll need to think harder about that, but in current
usage, most contexts with custom names are long-lived anyway.)
The freelist management in this initial commit is pretty simplistic,
and we might want to refine it later --- but in common workloads that
will never matter because the freelists will never get full anyway.
To create a context with a non-constant name, one is now required to
call AllocSetContextCreateExtended and specify the MEMCONTEXT_COPY_NAME
option. AllocSetContextCreate becomes a wrapper macro, and it includes
a test that will complain about non-string-literal context name
parameters on gcc and similar compilers.
An unfortunate side effect of making AllocSetContextCreate a macro is
that one is now *required* to use the size parameter abstraction macros
(ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_SIZES and friends) with it; the pre-9.6 habit of
writing out individual size parameters no longer works unless you
switch to AllocSetContextCreateExtended.
Internally to the memory-context-related modules, the context creation
APIs are simplified, removing the rather baroque original design whereby
a context-type module called mcxt.c which then called back into the
context-type module. That saved a bit of code duplication, but not much,
and it prevented context-type modules from exercising control over the
allocation of context headers.
In passing, I converted the test-and-elog validation of aset size
parameters into Asserts to save a few more cycles. The original thought
was that callers might compute size parameters on the fly, but in practice
nobody does that, so it's useless to expend cycles on checking those
numbers in production builds.
Also, mark the memory context method-pointer structs "const",
just for cleanliness.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2264.1512870796@sss.pgh.pa.us
Add new style of memory allocator, known as Generational
appropriate for use in cases where memory is allocated
and then freed in roughly oldest first order (FIFO).
Use new allocator for logical decoding’s reorderbuffer
to significantly reduce memory usage and improve performance.
Author: Tomas Vondra
Reviewed-by: Simon Riggs
When a publisher table has fewer columns than a subscriber, the update
of a row on the publisher should result in updating of only the columns
in common. The previous coding mistakenly reset the values of
additional columns on the subscriber to NULL because it failed to skip
updates of columns not found in the attribute map.
Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Add bgw_type field to background worker structure. It is intended to be
set to the same value for all workers of the same type, so they can be
grouped in pg_stat_activity, for example.
The backend_type column in pg_stat_activity now shows bgw_type for a
background worker. The ps listing also no longer calls out that a
process is a background worker but just show the bgw_type. That way,
being a background worker is more of an implementation detail now that
is not shown to the user. However, most log messages still refer to
'background worker "%s"'; otherwise constructing sensible and
translatable log messages would become tricky.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
The file handling functions from fd.c were called with a diverse mix of
notations for the file permissions when they were opening new files.
Almost all files created by the server should have the same permissions
set. So change the API so that e.g. OpenTransientFile() automatically
uses the standard permissions set, and OpenTransientFilePerm() is a new
function that takes an explicit permissions set for the few cases where
it is needed. This also saves an unnecessary argument for call sites
that are just opening an existing file.
While we're reviewing these APIs, get rid of the FileName typedef and
use the standard const char * for the file name and mode_t for the file
mode. This makes these functions match other file handling functions
and removes an unnecessary layer of mysteriousness. We can also get rid
of a few casts that way.
Author: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
For performance reasons a larger segment size than the default 16MB
can be useful. A larger segment size has two main benefits: Firstly,
in setups using archiving, it makes it easier to write scripts that
can keep up with higher amounts of WAL, secondly, the WAL has to be
written and synced to disk less frequently.
But at the same time large segment size are disadvantageous for
smaller databases. So far the segment size had to be configured at
compile time, often making it unrealistic to choose one fitting to a
particularly load. Therefore change it to a initdb time setting.
This includes a breaking changes to the xlogreader.h API, which now
requires the current segment size to be configured. For that and
similar reasons a number of binaries had to be taught how to recognize
the current segment size.
Author: Beena Emerson, editorialized by Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, David Steele, Kuntal Ghosh, Michael
Paquier, Peter Eisentraut, Robert Hass, Tushar Ahuja
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOG9ApEAcQ--1ieKbhFzXSQPw_YLmepaa4hNdnY5+ZULpt81Mw@mail.gmail.com
If we failed to get a background worker slot, the code just walked
away from the logicalrep-worker slot it already had, leaving that
looking like the worker is still starting up. This led to an indefinite
hang in subscription startup, as reported by Thomas Munro. We must
release the slot on failure.
Also fix a thinko: we must capture the worker slot's generation before
releasing LogicalRepWorkerLock the first time, else testing to see if
it's changed is pretty meaningless.
BTW, the CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() in WaitForReplicationWorkerAttach is a
ticking time bomb, even without considering the possibility of elog(ERROR)
in one of the other functions it calls. Really, this entire business needs
a redesign with some actual thought about error recovery. But for now
I'm just band-aiding the case observed in testing.
Back-patch to v10 where this code was added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2bP3TBMFBArP6o20AZaRduWjMnjCjt22hSdnA-EvrtCw@mail.gmail.com
Do for replication origins what the previous commit did for replication
slots: restore the original behavior of replication origin drop to raise
an error rather than blocking, because users might be depending on the
original behavior. Maintain the blocking behavior when invoked
internally from logical replication subscription handling.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170830133922.tlpo3lgfejm4n2cs@alvherre.pgsql
This is a mechanical change in preparation for a later commit that
will change the layout of TupleDesc. Introducing a macro to abstract
the details of where attributes are stored will allow us to change
that in separate step and revise it in future.
Author: Thomas Munro, editorialized by Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com
Similar to what was fixed in commit 9915de6c1c for replication slots,
but this time it's related to replication origins: DROP SUBSCRIPTION
attempts to drop the replication origin, but that fails if the
replication worker process hasn't yet marked it unused. This causes
failures in the buildfarm:
ERROR: could not drop replication origin with OID 1, in use by PID 34069
Like the aforementioned commit, fix by having the process running DROP
SUBSCRIPTION sleep until the worker marks the the replication origin
struct as free. This uses a condition variable on each replication
origin shmem state struct, so that the session trying to drop can sleep
and expect to be awakened by the process keeping the origin open.
Also fix a SGML markup in the previous commit.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170808001433.rozlseaf4m2wkw3n@alvherre.pgsql
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 relation attribute map was not initialized for dropped columns,
leading to errors later on.
Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Reported-by: Scott Milliken <scott@deltaex.com>
Bug: #14769
The callers for GetOldestSafeDecodingTransactionId() all inverted the
argument for the argument introduced in 2bef06d516. Luckily this
appears to be inconsequential for the moment, as we wait for
concurrent in-progress transaction when assembling a
snapshot. Additionally this could only make a difference when adding a
second logical slot, because only a pre-existing slot could cause an
issue by lowering the returned xid dangerously much.
Reported-By: Antonin Houska
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/32704.1496993134@localhost
Backport: 9.4-, where 2bef06d516 was backpatched to.
This fixes a crash if the local table has a function index and the
function makes non-immutable calls.
Reported-by: Scott Milliken <scott@deltaex.com>
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@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
The regression tests contain numerous cases where we do some activity on a
master server and then wait till the slave has ack'd flushing its copy of
that transaction. Because WAL flush on the slave is asynchronous to the
logicalrep worker process, the worker cannot send such a feedback message
during the LogicalRepApplyLoop iteration where it processes the last data
from the master. In the previous coding, the feedback message would come
out only when the loop's WaitLatchOrSocket call returned WL_TIMEOUT. That
requires one full second of delay (NAPTIME_PER_CYCLE); and to add insult
to injury, it could take more than that if the WaitLatchOrSocket was
interrupted a few times by latch-setting events.
In reality we can expect the slave's walwriter process to have flushed the
WAL data after, more or less, WalWriterDelay (typically 200ms). Hence,
if there are unacked transactions pending, make the wait delay only that
long rather than the full NAPTIME_PER_CYCLE. Also, move one of the
send_feedback() calls into the loop main line, so that we'll check for the
need to send feedback even if we were woken by a latch event and not either
socket data or timeout.
It's not clear how much this matters for production purposes, but
it's definitely helpful for testing.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30864.1498861103@sss.pgh.pa.us
When waiting for a logical replication worker process to start or stop,
we have to busy-wait until we see it add or remove itself from the
LogicalRepWorker slot in shared memory. Those loops were using a
one-second delay between checks, but on any reasonably modern machine, it
doesn't take more than a couple of msec for a worker to spawn or shut down.
Reduce the loop delays to 10ms to avoid wasting quite so much time in the
related regression tests.
In principle, a better solution would be to fix things so that the waiting
process can be awakened via its latch at the right time. But that seems
considerably more invasive, which is undesirable for a post-beta fix.
Worker start/stop performance likely isn't of huge interest anyway for
production purposes, so we might not ever get around to it.
In passing, rearrange the second wait loop in logicalrep_worker_stop()
so that the lock is held at the top of the loop, thus saving one lock
acquisition/release per call, and making it look more like the other loop.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30864.1498861103@sss.pgh.pa.us
When a sync worker is waiting for the associated apply worker to notice
that it's in SYNCWAIT state, wait_for_worker_state_change() would just
patiently wait for that to happen. This generally required waiting for
the 1-second timeout in LogicalRepApplyLoop to elapse. Kicking the worker
via its latch makes things significantly snappier.
While at it, fix race conditions that could potentially result in crashes:
we can *not* call logicalrep_worker_wakeup_ptr() once we've released the
LogicalRepWorkerLock, because worker->proc might've been reset to NULL
after we do that (indeed, there's no really solid reason to believe that
the LogicalRepWorker slot even belongs to the same worker anymore).
In logicalrep_worker_wakeup(), we can just move the wakeup inside the
lock scope. In process_syncing_tables_for_apply(), a bit more code
rearrangement is needed.
Also improve some nearby comments.
Don't move parenthesized lines to the left, even if that means they
flow past the right margin.
By default, BSD indent lines up statement continuation lines that are
within parentheses so that they start just to the right of the preceding
left parenthesis. However, traditionally, if that resulted in the
continuation line extending to the right of the desired right margin,
then indent would push it left just far enough to not overrun the margin,
if it could do so without making the continuation line start to the left of
the current statement indent. That makes for a weird mix of indentations
unless one has been completely rigid about never violating the 80-column
limit.
This behavior has been pretty universally panned by Postgres developers.
Hence, disable it with indent's new -lpl switch, so that parenthesized
lines are always lined up with the preceding left paren.
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
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
The new indent version includes numerous fixes thanks to Piotr Stefaniak.
The main changes visible in this commit are:
* Nicer formatting of function-pointer declarations.
* No longer unexpectedly removes spaces in expressions using casts,
sizeof, or offsetof.
* No longer wants to add a space in "struct structname *varname", as
well as some similar cases for const- or volatile-qualified pointers.
* Declarations using PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY are formatted more nicely.
* Fixes bug where comments following declarations were sometimes placed
with no space separating them from the code.
* Fixes some odd decisions for comments following case labels.
* Fixes some cases where comments following code were indented to less
than the expected column 33.
On the less good side, it now tends to put more whitespace around typedef
names that are not listed in typedefs.list. This might encourage us to
put more effort into typedef name collection; it's not really a bug in
indent itself.
There are more changes coming after this round, having to do with comment
indentation and alignment of lines appearing within parentheses. I wanted
to limit the size of the diffs to something that could be reviewed without
one's eyes completely glazing over, so it seemed better to split up the
changes as much as practical.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
When, during logical decoding, a transaction gets too big, it's
contents get spilled to disk. Not just the top-transaction gets
spilled, but *also* all of its subtransactions, even if they're not
that large themselves. Unfortunately we didn't clean up
such small spilled subtransactions from disk.
Fix that, by keeping better track of whether a transaction has been
spilled to disk.
Author: Andres Freund
Reported-By: Dmitriy Sarafannikov, Fabrízio de Royes Mello
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/1457621358.355011041@f382.i.mail.ruhttps://postgr.es/m/CAFcNs+qNMhNYii4nxpO6gqsndiyxNDYV0S=JNq0v_sEE+9PHXg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.4-, where logical decoding was introduced
Previously we required every exported transaction to have an xid
assigned. That was used to check that the exporting transaction is
still running, which in turn is needed to guarantee that that
necessary rows haven't been removed in between exporting and importing
the snapshot.
The exported xid caused unnecessary problems with logical decoding,
because slot creation has to wait for all concurrent xid to finish,
which in turn serializes concurrent slot creation. It also
prohibited snapshots to be exported on hot-standby replicas.
Instead export the virtual transactionid, which avoids the unnecessary
serialization and the inability to export snapshots on standbys. This
changes the file name of the exported snapshot, but since we never
documented what that one means, that seems ok.
Author: Petr Jelinek, slightly editorialized by me
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f598b4b8-8cd7-0d54-0939-adda763d8c34@2ndquadrant.com
When a table is removed from a subscription before the tablesync worker
could start, this would previously result in an error when reading
pg_subscription_rel. Now we just ignore this.
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
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
A logical replication worker should not insert new rows into
pg_subscription_rel, only update existing rows, so that there are no
races if a concurrent refresh removes rows. Adjust the API to be able
to choose that behavior.
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reported-by: tushar <tushar.ahuja@enterprisedb.com>
The logical replication apply worker uses the subscription name as
application name, except for table sync. This was incorrectly set to
use the replication slot name, which might be different, in one case.
Also add a comment why the other case is different.
The larger part of this patch replaces usages of MyProc->procLatch
with MyLatch. The latter works even early during backend startup,
where MyProc->procLatch doesn't yet. While the affected code
shouldn't run in cases where it's not initialized, it might get copied
into places where it might. Using MyLatch is simpler and a bit faster
to boot, so there's little point to stick with the previous coding.
While doing so I noticed some weaknesses around newly introduced uses
of latches that could lead to missed events, and an omitted
CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() call in worker_spi.
As all the actual bugs are in v10 code, there doesn't seem to be
sufficient reason to backpatch this.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/20170606195321.sjmenrfgl2nu6j63@alap3.anarazel.dehttps://postgr.es/m/20170606210405.sim3yl6vpudhmufo@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: -
Make apply busy wait check the catalog instead of shmem state to ensure
that next transaction will see the expected table synchronization state.
Also make the handover always go through same set of steps to make the
overall process easier to understand and debug.
Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Tested-by: Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz>
Tested-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
We didn't accept any invalidation messages until the whole sync process
had finished (because it flattens all the remote transactions in the
single one). So the sync worker didn't learn about subscription
changes/drop until it has finished. This could lead to "orphaned" sync
workers.
Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Reported-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
