pgsql: Refrain from duplicating data in reorderbuffers

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Refrain from duplicating data in reorderbuffers
Date: 2018-03-06 21:35:39
Message-ID: E1etKFH-0003kp-N8@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Refrain from duplicating data in reorderbuffers

If a walsender exits leaving data in reorderbuffers, the next walsender
that tries to decode the same transaction would append its decoded data
in the same spill files without truncating it first, which effectively
duplicate the data. Avoid that by removing any leftover reorderbuffer
spill files when a walsender starts.

Backpatch to 9.4; this bug has been there from the very beginning of
logical decoding.

Author: Craig Ringer, revised by me
Reviewed by: Álvaro Herrera, Petr Jelínek, Masahiko Sawada

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8aa75e1384b1c62e302db02e6006fc6a2885afeb

Modified Files
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src/backend/replication/logical/reorderbuffer.c | 138 ++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 82 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)

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