Re: "Multiple table synchronizations are processed serially" still happens

From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: "Multiple table synchronizations are processed serially" still happens
Date: 2021-05-20 20:00:34
Message-ID: CAECtzeVNd+o9LUnRGA_6KpugcsS_6o2241DosSdsEe4=933ABg@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

Le jeu. 20 mai 2021 à 12:09, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> a écrit :

> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 2:43 PM Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> >
> > And it logs the "still waiting" message as long as the first table is
> being synchronized. Once this is done, it releases the lock, and the
> synchronization of the second table starts.
> >
> > Is there something I didn't understand on the previous thread?
> >
>
> It seems from a script that you are creating a subscription on the
> same node as publication though in a different DB, right?

Yes, that's right.

If so, the
> problem might be that copying the data of the first table creates a
> transaction which blocks creation of the slot for second table copy.
>

I don't understand how a transaction could block the creation of a slot.
Could you explain that to me? or do you know where this is explained in the
documentation?

The commit you referred will just fix the problem while reading the
> data from the publisher not while writing data in the table in the
> subscriber.
>
> > I'd like to know why serial synchronization happens, and if there's a
> way to avoid it.
> >
>
> I guess you need to create a subscription on a different node.
>
>
Thanks.

--
Guillaume.

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