Re: An attempt to avoid locally-committed-but-not-replicated-to-standby-transactions in synchronous replication

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Andrey Borodin <amborodin86(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, SATYANARAYANA NARLAPURAM <satyanarlapuram(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: An attempt to avoid locally-committed-but-not-replicated-to-standby-transactions in synchronous replication
Date: 2022-11-28 20:55:07
Message-ID: Y4UgKy51fqtWcrkq@momjian.us
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On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 11:26:50AM -0800, Andrey Borodin wrote:
> Some funny stuff. If a user tries to cancel a non-replicated transaction
> Azure Postgres will answer: "user requested cancel while waiting for
> synchronous replication ack. The COMMIT record has already flushed to
> WAL locally and might not have been replicatead to the standby. We
> must wait here."
> AWS RDS will answer: "ignoring request to cancel wait for synchronous
> replication"
> Yandex Managed Postgres will answer: "canceling wait for synchronous
> replication due requested, but cancelation is not allowed. The
> transaction has already committed locally and might not have been
> replicated to the standby. We must wait here."
>
> So, for many services providing Postgres as a service it's only a
> matter of wording.

Wow, you are telling me all three cloud vendors changed how query cancel
behaves on an unresponsive synchronous replica? That is certainly a
testament that the community needs to change or at least review our
behavior.

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