Re: Non working timeout detection in logical worker

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 08:00:15PM +0200, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
> Jehan-Guillaume (in Cc) reported me today a problem with logical
> replication, where in case of network issue the walsender is correctly
> terminating at the given wal_sender_timeout but the logical worker
> kept waiting indefinitely.
>
> The issue is apparently a simple thinko, the timestamp of the last
> received activity being unconditionally set at the beginning of the
> main processing loop, making any reasonable timeout setting
> ineffective. Trivial patch to fix the problem attached.

Right, good catch. That's indeed incorrect. The current code would
just keep resetting the timeout if walrcv_receive() returns 0 roughly
once per NAPTIME_PER_CYCLE. The ping sent to the server once reaching
half of wal_receiver_timeout was also broken because of that.

In short, applied and back-patched down to 10.
--
Michael