Re: PATCH: logical_work_mem and logical streaming of large in-progress transactions

>>>>
>>>> logical replication of 2 instances is OK but 3 and up fail with:
>>>>
>>>> TRAP: FailedAssertion("!(last_lsn < change->lsn)", File:
>>>> "reorderbuffer.c", Line: 1773)
>>>>
>>>> I can cobble up a script but I hope you have enough from the
>>>> assertion
>>>> to see what's going wrong...
>>>
>>> The assertion says that the iterator produces changes in order that
>>> does
>>> not correlate with LSN. But I have a hard time understanding how that
>>> could happen, particularly because according to the line number this
>>> happens in ReorderBufferCommit(), i.e. the current (non-streaming)
>>> case.
>>>
>>> So instructions to reproduce the issue would be very helpful.
>>
>> Using:
>>
>> 0001-Introduce-logical_work_mem-to-limit-ReorderBuffer-v2.patch
>> 0002-Issue-XLOG_XACT_ASSIGNMENT-with-wal_level-logical-v2.patch
>> 0003-Issue-individual-invalidations-with-wal_level-log-v2.patch
>> 0004-Extend-the-output-plugin-API-with-stream-methods-v2.patch
>> 0005-Implement-streaming-mode-in-ReorderBuffer-v2.patch
>> 0006-Add-support-for-streaming-to-built-in-replication-v2.patch
>>
>> As you expected the problem is the same with these new patches.
>>
>> I have now tested more, and seen that it not always fails.  I guess
>> that
>> it here fails 3 times out of 4.  But the laptop I'm using at the
>> moment
>> is old and slow -- it may well be a factor as we've seen before [1].
>>
>> Attached is the bash that I put together.  I tested with
>> NUM_INSTANCES=2, which yields success, and NUM_INSTANCES=3, which
>> fails
>> often.  This same program run with HEAD never seems to fail (I tried a
>> few dozen times).
>>
>
> Thanks. Unfortunately I still can't reproduce the issue. I even tried
> running it in valgrind, to see if there are some memory access issues
> (which should also slow it down significantly).

One wonders again if 2ndquadrant shouldn't invest in some old hardware
;)

Another Good Thing would be if there was a provision in the buildfarm to
test patches like these.

But I'm probably not to first one to suggest that; no doubt it'll be
possible someday. In the meantime I'll try to repeat this crash on
other machines (but that will be after the holidays).

Erik Rijkers