Re: pg_upgrade and logical replication

From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_upgrade and logical replication
Date: 2023-11-13 10:32:27
Message-ID: CAA4eK1KGZ+a+7u6UknBiNAyfOokAApdTToNq6e4qgvkp2c5aPw@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 1:52 PM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
>
> It seems to me that INIT cannot be relied on for a similar reason.
> This state would be set for a new relation in
> LogicalRepSyncTableStart(), and the relation would still be in INIT
> state when creating the slot via walrcv_create_slot() in a second
> transaction started a bit later.
>

Before creating a slot, we changed the state to DATASYNC.

>
> However, if we have a failure after
> the transaction that created the slot commits, then we'd have an INIT
> relation in the catalog that got committed *and* a slot related to it
> lying around.
>

I don't think this can happen otherwise this could be a problem even
without an upgrade after restart.

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

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