Re: BUG #13725: Logical Decoding - wrong results with large transactions and unfortunate timing

From: "Shulgin, Oleksandr" <oleksandr(dot)shulgin(at)zalando(dot)de>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Ofir Manor <ofir(dot)manor(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #13725: Logical Decoding - wrong results with large transactions and unfortunate timing
Date: 2015-10-26 11:34:48
Message-ID: CACACo5Q8hDNu8nuNbkScLupmWMpxj+b196iEBLxKKrc5Ey2C8g@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> On 2015-10-26 13:21:44 +0200, ofir(dot)manor(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:
> > Yes, this is a small script to reproduce, the real code is Java, we saw
> > sporadic wrong results.
> > However, I'm interested in CDC (get change notifications per row to my
> > app), not PG-to-PG replication.
>
> The streaming interface exists for row-by-row notification as well, and
> is a *LOT* more efficient.
>

Yeah, but I don't think there's a workable Java implementation available
yet?

If there's a bug here, we obviously need to fix it nonetheless.
>

I would assume re-calculating end_of_wal in the while loop condition would
fix this? One can obviously run out of memory with a more WAL-intensive
example, but I would not consider that a bug of this interface.

--
Alex

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