Re: logical decoding and replication of sequences, take 2

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: logical decoding and replication of sequences, take 2
Date: 2023-01-11 20:28:51
Message-ID: 20230111202851.nrqybwypzk4k5bwg@awork3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2023-01-11 15:23:18 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> Yeah, I meant if #1 had committed and then #2 started to do its thing.
> I was worried that decoding might reach the nextval operations in
> transaction #2 before it replayed #1.
>
> This worry may be entirely based on me not understanding how this
> actually works. Do we always apply a transaction as soon as we see the
> commit record for it, before decoding any further?

Yes.

Otherwise we'd have a really hard time figuring out the correct historical
snapshot to use for subsequent transactions - they'd have been able to see the
catalog modifications made by the committing transaction.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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