Re: logical replication: restart_lsn can go backwards (and more), seems broken since 9.4

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas(at)vondra(dot)me>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: logical replication: restart_lsn can go backwards (and more), seems broken since 9.4
Date: 2024-11-13 11:53:34
Message-ID: 6bd1c40b-0ccf-4a9a-92c2-9debd673f58c@vondra.me
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On 11/13/24 10:38, Amit Kapila wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 6:29 PM Tomas Vondra <tomas(at)vondra(dot)me> wrote:
>>
>> Sure, maybe fixing LogicalIncreaseRestartDecodingForSlot() is enough to
>> fix this particular case. But I'd be happier if we could also add
>> asserts checking the LSN advances, to detect similar issues that we may
>> be unaware of yet.
>>
>
> As most of us lean towards fixing
> LogicalIncreaseRestartDecodingForSlot(), let's fix that in the HEAD
> and back branches. Separately we can consider other asserts just for
> HEAD that you think will make the code robust and help avoid such bugs
> in the future.
>

+1 to that

regards

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Tomas Vondra

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