Re: Fix slot synchronization with two_phase decoding enabled

On Sun, Jun 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> Yet another idea is to dump the subscription with two_phase = on and
> failover = false. We should do this when both options are 'true'
> during the dump. As we are documenting that we always dump
> createsubscription with connect as false and let users take care (see
> [1] (When dumping logical replication subscriptions ...)), a similar
> reasoning could be given for the failover flag.

It probably would work for subscriptions but what about logical slots?
If we restore two_phase=on and failover=false, the user would have to
enable the failover via ALTER_REPLICATION_SLOT. I think we should
avoid asking users to execute the replication commands directly.

> The one more combination to consider is when someone takes a dump of
> an older version and loads it into a newer version. For example, where
> users dump from 17.5 and then restore in a newer version, say 17.6
> (which has our fix), the restore will fail due to newer restrictions
> added by this patch. Do we need to do anything about it?

A valid concern. Implementing this change could potentially render
dumps created prior to version 17.5 incompatible with version 17.6 or
later, which seems a significant backwards incompatibility to me. Do
we have any precedence of such incompatibility?

Regards,

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Masahiko Sawada
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