RE: Slow catchup of 2PC (twophase) transactions on replica in LR

Hi Kuroda-san,

Thank you very much for the patch. In general, it seem to work well for me, but there seems to be a memory access problem in libpqrcv_alter_slot -> quote_identifier in case of NULL slot_name. It happens, if the two_phase option is altered on a subscription without slot. I think, a simple check for NULL may fix the problem. I guess, the same problem may be for failover option.

Another possible problem is related to my use case. I haven't reproduced this case, just some thoughts. I guess, when two_phase is ON, the PREPARE statement may be truncated from the WAL at checkpoint, but COMMIT PREPARED is still kept in the WAL. On catchup, I would ask the master to send transactions from some restart LSN. I would like to get all such transactions competely, with theirs bodies, not only COMMIT PREPARED messages. One of the solutions is to have an option for the slot to keep the WAL like with two_phase = OFF independently on its two_phase option. It is just an idea.

With best regards,
Vitaly