Re: speed up a logical replica setup

From: "Euler Taveira" <euler(at)eulerto(dot)com>
To: "Shlok Kyal" <shlok(dot)kyal(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: speed up a logical replica setup
Date: 2024-02-20 01:28:17
Message-ID: 79088f3e-7b9d-4059-9b36-e5ee0bc3889b@app.fastmail.com
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On Mon, Feb 19, 2024, at 7:22 AM, Shlok Kyal wrote:
> I have reviewed the v21 patch. And found an issue.
>
> Initially I started the standby server with a new postgresql.conf file
> (not the default postgresql.conf that is present in the instance).
> pg_ctl -D ../standby start -o "-c config_file=/new_path/postgresql.conf"
>
> And I have made 'max_replication_slots = 1' in new postgresql.conf and
> made 'max_replication_slots = 0' in the default postgresql.conf file.
> Now when we run pg_createsubscriber on standby we get error:
> pg_createsubscriber: error: could not set replication progress for the
> subscription "pg_createsubscriber_5_242843": ERROR: cannot query or
> manipulate replication origin when max_replication_slots = 0

That's by design. See [1]. The max_replication_slots parameter is used as the
maximum number of subscriptions on the server.

> NOTICE: dropped replication slot "pg_createsubscriber_5_242843" on publisher
> pg_createsubscriber: error: could not drop publication
> "pg_createsubscriber_5" on database "postgres": ERROR: publication
> "pg_createsubscriber_5" does not exist
> pg_createsubscriber: error: could not drop replication slot
> "pg_createsubscriber_5_242843" on database "postgres": ERROR:
> replication slot "pg_createsubscriber_5_242843" does not exist

That's a bug and should be fixed.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-replication.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-REPLICATION-SUBSCRIBER

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Euler Taveira
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