Re: More race conditions in logical replication

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Petr Jelinek <petr(dot)jelinek(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: More race conditions in logical replication
Date: 2017-07-24 23:33:08
Message-ID: 20170724233308.rfzygeusgolvjtwd@alvherre.pgsql
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I'm back at looking into this again, after a rather exhausting week. I
> think I have a better grasp of what is going on in this code now,

Here's an updated patch, which I intend to push tomorrow.

> and it
> appears to me that we should change the locking so that active_pid is
> protected by ReplicationSlotControlLock instead of the slot's spinlock;
> but I haven't analyzed the idea fully yet and I don't have the patch
> done yet either.

This doesn't seem to be a good idea actually.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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