Re: Synchronizing slots from primary to standby

From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: shveta malik <shveta(dot)malik(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)" <houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ajin Cherian <itsajin(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nisha Moond <nisha(dot)moond412(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu(dot)coek88(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Synchronizing slots from primary to standby
Date: 2024-02-17 04:40:18
Message-ID: CAA4eK1+aTp0Kd7_TreX-a+x71pqo5mvMK1M5F5v0AC5ALUj_hw@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 4:10 PM shveta malik <shveta(dot)malik(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 10:48 PM Bertrand Drouvot
> <bertranddrouvot(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > 5 ===
> >
> > + if (SlotSyncWorker->syncing)
> > {
> > - SpinLockRelease(&SlotSyncCtx->mutex);
> > + SpinLockRelease(&SlotSyncWorker->mutex);
> > ereport(ERROR,
> > errcode(ERRCODE_OBJECT_NOT_IN_PREREQUISITE_STATE),
> > errmsg("cannot synchronize replication slots concurrently"));
> > }
> >
> > worth to add a test in 040_standby_failover_slots_sync.pl for it?
>
> It will be very difficult to stabilize this test as we have to make
> sure that the concurrent users (SQL function(s) and/or worker(s)) are
> in that target function at the same time to hit it.
>

Yeah, I also think would be tricky to write a stable test, maybe one
can explore using a new injection point facility but I don't think it
is worth for this error check as this appears straightforward to be
broken in the future by other changes.

--
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

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