Re: Syncrep and improving latency due to WAL throttling

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jakub Wartak <jakub(dot)wartak(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Syncrep and improving latency due to WAL throttling
Date: 2023-01-26 15:51:24
Message-ID: 20230126155124.xnifvlnbpnah32qf@awork3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2023-01-26 13:33:27 +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> 6. Backends can ignore throttling for WAL records marked as unimportant, no?

Why would that be a good idea? Not that it matters today, but those records
still need to be flushed in case of a commit by another transaction.

> 7. I think we need to not let backends throttle too frequently even
> though they have crossed wal_throttle_threshold bytes. The best way is
> to rely on replication lag, after all the goal of this feature is to
> keep replication lag under check - say, throttle only when
> wal_distance > wal_throttle_threshold && replication_lag >
> wal_throttle_replication_lag_threshold.

I think my idea of only forcing to flush/wait an LSN some distance in the past
would automatically achieve that?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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