Re: Synchronizing slots from primary to standby

From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: Synchronizing slots from primary to standby
Date: 2024-03-29 08:58:10
Message-ID: CAA4eK1+ovDb0b0dzcuahbL6dvdn874snUp6VWA0=G9CCFYxHAw@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 9:34 AM Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)
<kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for updating the patch! Here is a comment for it.
>
> ```
> + /*
> + * By advancing the restart_lsn, confirmed_lsn, and xmin using
> + * fast-forward logical decoding, we can verify whether a consistent
> + * snapshot can be built. This process also involves saving necessary
> + * snapshots to disk during decoding, ensuring that logical decoding
> + * efficiently reaches a consistent point at the restart_lsn without
> + * the potential loss of data during snapshot creation.
> + */
> + pg_logical_replication_slot_advance(remote_slot->confirmed_lsn,
> + found_consistent_point);
> + ReplicationSlotsComputeRequiredLSN();
> + updated_lsn = true;
> ```
>
> You added them like pg_replication_slot_advance(), but the function also calls
> ReplicationSlotsComputeRequiredXmin(false) at that time. According to the related
> commit b48df81 and discussions [1], I know it is needed only for physical slots,
> but it makes more consistent to call requiredXmin() as well, per [2]:
>

Yeah, I also think it is okay to call for the sake of consistency with
pg_replication_slot_advance().

--
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

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