Re: BUG #16643: PG13 - Logical replication - initial startup never finishes and gets stuck in startup loop

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Henry Hinze <henry(dot)hinze(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: BUG #16643: PG13 - Logical replication - initial startup never finishes and gets stuck in startup loop
Date: 2020-11-04 13:49:31
Message-ID: 20201104134931.GA6515@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2020-Nov-04, Amit Kapila wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 8:20 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:

> > * STREAM COMMIT bug?
> > In apply_handle_stream_commit, we do CommitTransactionCommand, but
> > apparently in a tablesync worker we shouldn't do it.
>
> In the tablesync stage, we don't allow streaming. See pgoutput_startup
> where we disable streaming for the init phase. As far as I understand,
> for tablesync we create the initial slot during which streaming will
> be disabled then we will copy the table (here logical decoding won't
> be used) and then allow the apply worker to get any other data which
> is inserted in the meantime. Now, I might be missing something here
> but if you can explain it a bit more or share some test to show how we
> can reach here via tablesync worker then we can discuss the possible
> solution.

Hmm, okay, that sounds like there would be no bug then. Maybe what we
need is just an assert in apply_handle_stream_commit that
!am_tablesync_worker(), as in the attached patch. Passes tests.

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