Re: Logical replication stuck in catchup state

Thank you very much for your replies.

Regarding the server logs, I didn't find anything but healthy log when the server start which says that it is going to recover from the same point in WAL which was last sent.
Regarding bugfixes, I will try to update ASAP - but wouldn't a restart of the server release the lock? Is there a way to release the lock manually?

Any other suggestion on how to recover from this state without upgrading?
Is there a way to restart the replication from scratch?

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From: Dan shmidt
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 12:30 AM
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Logical replication stuck in catchup state

Hi All,

We have a setup in which there are several master nodes replicating to a single slave/backup node. We are using Postgres 11.4.
Recently, one of the nodes seems to be stuck and stopped replicating.
I did some basic troubleshooting and couldn't find the root cause for that.

On one hand:
- the replication slot does seem to be active according to pg_replication_slots (Sorry no screenshot)
- on slave node it seems that last_msg_receipt_time is updating on pg_stat_subscription

On the other hand:
- on the slave node: received_lsn keeps pointing on the same wal segment (pg_stat_subscription)
- redo_lsn - restart_lsn shows ~20GB lag

According to logs on the master it seems that the sender hits a timeout, when trying to increase the wal_sender_timeout even to 0 (no timeout) - it doesn't have any effect. On the other hand, the last_msg_receipt_time is updated. How is that possible?

Screenshots attached. The stuck subscription/replication slot is the one ending with "53db6". On images with more than one row - it's the second one.

Any suggestions on what may be the root cause or how to continue debugging?
Appreciate your help.

Thank you,
Dan.