Re: Improve pg_sync_replication_slots() to wait for primary to advance

Hi, Ajin

Thanks for updating the patch.

On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 at 18:47, Ajin Cherian <itsajin(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM shveta malik <shveta(dot)malik(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM Ajin Cherian <itsajin(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > I've modified the comments to reflect the new changes.
>> >
>> > attaching patch v18 with the above changes.
>> >
>>
>> Thanks for the patch. The test is still not clear. Can we please add
>> the test after the test of "Test logical failover slots corresponding
>> to different plugins" finishes instead of adding it in between?
>>
>
> I've rewritten the tests again to make this possible. Attaching v19
> which has the modified tap test.

Here are some comments on the new patch.

1. Given the existence of the foreach_ptr macro, we can switch the usage of
foreach to foreach_ptr.

diff --git a/src/backend/replication/logical/slotsync.c b/src/backend/replication/logical/slotsync.c
index 1b78ffc5ff1..5db51407a82 100644
--- a/src/backend/replication/logical/slotsync.c
+++ b/src/backend/replication/logical/slotsync.c
@@ -872,7 +872,6 @@ fetch_remote_slots(WalReceiverConn *wrconn, List *slot_names)

if (slot_names != NIL)
{
- ListCell *lc;
bool first_slot = true;

/*
@@ -880,10 +879,8 @@ fetch_remote_slots(WalReceiverConn *wrconn, List *slot_names)
*/
appendStringInfoString(&query, " AND slot_name IN (");

- foreach(lc, slot_names)
+ foreach_ptr(char, slot_name, slot_names)
{
- char *slot_name = (char *) lfirst(lc);
-
if (!first_slot)
appendStringInfoString(&query, ", ");

@@ -1872,15 +1869,13 @@ static List *
extract_slot_names(List *remote_slots)
{
List *slot_names = NIL;
- ListCell *lc;
MemoryContext oldcontext;

/* Switch to long-lived TopMemoryContext to store slot names */
oldcontext = MemoryContextSwitchTo(TopMemoryContext);

- foreach(lc, remote_slots)
+ foreach_ptr(RemoteSlot, remote_slot, remote_slots)
{
- RemoteSlot *remote_slot = (RemoteSlot *) lfirst(lc);
char *slot_name;

slot_name = pstrdup(remote_slot->name);

2. To append a signal character, switch from appendStringInfoString() to the
more efficient appendStringInfoChar().

+ appendStringInfoString(&query, ")");

3. The query memory can be released immediately after walrcv_exec() because
there are no subsequent references.

@@ -895,6 +892,7 @@ fetch_remote_slots(WalReceiverConn *wrconn, List *slot_names)

/* Execute the query */
res = walrcv_exec(wrconn, query.data, SLOTSYNC_COLUMN_COUNT, slotRow);
+ pfree(query.data);
if (res->status != WALRCV_OK_TUPLES)
ereport(ERROR,
errmsg("could not fetch failover logical slots info from the primary server: %s",
@@ -975,7 +973,6 @@ fetch_remote_slots(WalReceiverConn *wrconn, List *slot_names)
}

walrcv_clear_result(res);
- pfree(query.data);

return remote_slot_list;
}

>
> Fujitsu Australia
>
> [2. text/x-diff; v19-0001-Improve-initial-slot-synchronization-in-pg_sync_.patch]...

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Regards,
Japin Li
ChengDu WenWu Information Technology Co., Ltd.