Re: Introduce XID age and inactive timeout based replication slot invalidation

On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 11:05 AM Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > I think we are often too quick to throw out perfectly good tests.
> > Citing that some similar GUCs don't do testing as a reason to skip
> > them just seems to me like an example of "two wrongs don't make a
> > right".
> >
> > There is a third option.
> >
> > Keep the tests. Because they take excessive time to run, that simply
> > means you should run them *conditionally* based on the PG_TEST_EXTRA
> > environment variable so they don't impact the normal BF execution. The
> > documentation [1] says this env var is for "resource intensive" tests
> > -- AFAIK this is exactly the scenario we find ourselves in, so is
> > exactly what this env var was meant for.
> >
> > Search other *.pl tests for PG_TEST_EXTRA to see some examples.
> >
>
> I don't see the long-running tests to be added under PG_TEST_EXTRA as
> that will make it unusable after some point. Now, if multiple senior
> members feel it is okay to add long-running tests under PG_TEST_EXTRA
> then I am open to considering it. We can keep this test as a separate
> patch so that the patch is being tested in CI or in manual tests
> before commit.
>

Please find the attached v64 patches. The changes in this version
w.r.t. older patch v63 are as -
- The changes from the v63-0001 patch have been moved to a separate thread [1].
- The v63-0002 patch has been split into two parts in v64:
1) 001 patch: Implements the main feature - inactive timeout-based
slot invalidation.
2) 002 patch: Separates the TAP test "044_invalidate_inactive_slots"
as suggested above.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CABdArM6pBL5hPnSQ%2B5nEVMANcF4FCH7LQmgskXyiLY75TMnKpw%40mail.gmail.com

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Thanks,
Nisha