Re: Exit walsender before confirming remote flush in logical replication

From: Ronan Dunklau <ronan(at)dunklau(dot)fr>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andrey Silitskiy <a(dot)silitskiy(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Vitaly Davydov <v(dot)davydov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, "Takamichi Osumi (Fujitsu)" <osumi(dot)takamichi(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com" <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, "michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz" <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, "peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com" <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com" <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, "andres(at)anarazel(dot)de" <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com" <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Exit walsender before confirming remote flush in logical replication
Date: 2026-01-28 08:27:28
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On Monday, January 26th, 2026 at 15:08, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Regarding the GUC name, wal_sender_shutdown seems simple and sufficient to me.
> This isn't a blocker, so I'm fine with the current name for now and
> revisiting it later if needed.

Are we considering other approaches to this ? Having the behavior be either "wait indefinitely" or "terminate immediately" is a bit coarse I think: a timeout for the wait (maybe named wal_sender_stop_timeout ?) would allow for the same usage as this patch provides (set it to -1 for indefinite wait, 0 for immediate shutdown, or any positive value to give a chance to the walsender to catch up before we terminate it forcibly).

The problem we have as of now is when the walreceiver is indeed connected and not reaching wal_sender_timeout as it's still processing: a distinct timeout would alleviate that.

Regards,

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Ronan Dunklau

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