Re: Skipping logical replication transactions on subscriber side

From: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, "tanghy(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <tanghy(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, "osumi(dot)takamichi(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <osumi(dot)takamichi(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Alexey Lesovsky <lesovsky(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Skipping logical replication transactions on subscriber side
Date: 2021-12-15 02:49:11
Message-ID: CAD21AoCjmg=m=hQyfdXCi7Ywt14jz8LkbShn0Eyw9VJEwnLD2g@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 2:35 PM Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 3:23 PM vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > While the worker is skipping one of the skip transactions specified by
> > the user and immediately if the user specifies another skip
> > transaction while the skipping of the transaction is in progress this
> > new value will be reset by the worker while clearing the skip xid. I
> > felt once the worker has identified the skip xid and is about to skip
> > the xid, the worker can acquire a lock to prevent concurrency issues:
>
> That's a good point.
> If only the last_error_xid could be skipped, then this wouldn't be an
> issue, right?
> If a different xid to skip is specified while the worker is currently
> skipping a transaction, should that even be allowed?
>

We don't expect such usage but yes, it could happen and seems not
good. I thought we can acquire Share lock on pg_subscription during
the skip but not sure it's a good idea. It would be better if we can
find a way to allow users to specify only XID that has failed.

Regards,

--
Masahiko Sawada
EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com/

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