Re: Logical replication ApplyContext bloat

From: Petr Jelinek <petr(dot)jelinek(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Stas Kelvich <s(dot)kelvich(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Logical replication ApplyContext bloat
Date: 2017-04-19 09:37:25
Message-ID: 3cde85de-4464-3742-882c-75cd0d5a7528@2ndquadrant.com
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On 18/04/17 13:45, Stas Kelvich wrote:
> Hi,
>
> currently logical replication worker uses ApplyContext to decode received data
> and that context is never freed during transaction processing. Hence if publication
> side is performing something like 10M row inserts in single transaction, then
> subscription worker will occupy more than 10G of ram (and can be killed by OOM).
>
> Attached patch resets ApplyContext after each insert/update/delete/commit.
> I’ve tried to reset context only on each 100/1000/10000 value of CommandCounter,
> but didn’t spotted any measurable difference in speed.
>
> Problem spotted by Mikhail Shurutov.
>

Hmm we also do replication protocol handling inside the ApplyContext
(LogicalRepApplyLoop), are you sure this change is safe in that regard?

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