18 Commits (ca902529cc0fea8a0ef660b519640da09a2680ef)

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Masahiko Sawada	cf2c69ec5a	Fix possibility of logical decoding partial transaction changes. ... When creating and initializing a logical slot, the restart_lsn is set to the latest WAL insertion point (or the latest replay point on standbys). Subsequently, WAL records are decoded from that point to find the start point for extracting changes in the DecodingContextFindStartpoint() function. Since the initial restart_lsn could be in the middle of a transaction, the start point must be a consistent point where we won't see the data for partial transactions. Previously, when not building a full snapshot, serialized snapshots were restored, and the SnapBuild jumps to the consistent state even while finding the start point. Consequently, the slot's restart_lsn and confirmed_flush could be set to the middle of a transaction. This could lead to various unexpected consequences. Specifically, there were reports of logical decoding decoding partial transactions, and assertion failures occurred because only subtransactions were decoded without decoding their top-level transaction until decoding the commit record. To resolve this issue, the changes prevent restoring the serialized snapshot and jumping to the consistent state while finding the start point. On v17 and HEAD, a flag indicating whether snapshot restores should be skipped has been added to the SnapBuild struct, and SNAPBUILD_VERSION has been bumpded. On backbranches, the flag is stored in the LogicalDecodingContext instead, preserving on-disk compatibility. Backpatch to all supported versions. Reported-by: Drew Callahan Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Hayato Kuroda Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2444AA15-D21B-4CCE-8052-52C7C2DAFE5C%40amazon.com Backpatch-through: 12	1 year ago
Amit Kapila	25f7be1ca2	Fix assertion failures while processing NEW_CID record in logical decoding. ... When the logical decoding restarts from NEW_CID, since there is no association between the top transaction and its subtransaction, both are created as top transactions and have the same LSN. This caused the assertion failure in AssertTXNLsnOrder(). This patch skips the assertion check until we reach the LSN at which we start decoding the contents of the transaction, specifically start_decoding_at LSN in SnapBuild. This is okay because we don't guarantee to make the association between top transaction and subtransaction until we try to decode the actual contents of transaction. The ordering of the records prior to the start_decoding_at LSN should have been checked before the restart. The other assertion failure is due to the reason that we forgot to track that we have considered top-level transaction id in the list of catalog changing transactions that were committed when one of its subtransactions is marked as containing catalog change. Reported-by: Tomas Vondra, Osumi Takamichi Author: Masahiko Sawada, Kuroda Hayato Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Dilip Kumar, Kuroda Hayato, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Masahiko Sawada Backpatch-through: 10 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a89b46b6-0239-2fd5-71a9-b19b1f7a7145%40enterprisedb.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYCPR01MB83733C6CEAE47D0280814D5AED7A9%40TYCPR01MB8373.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com	3 years ago
Amit Kapila	547b963683	Fix catalog lookup with the wrong snapshot during logical decoding. ... Previously, we relied on HEAP2_NEW_CID records and XACT_INVALIDATION records to know if the transaction has modified the catalog, and that information is not serialized to snapshot. Therefore, after the restart, if the logical decoding decodes only the commit record of the transaction that has actually modified a catalog, we will miss adding its XID to the snapshot. Thus, we will end up looking at catalogs with the wrong snapshot. To fix this problem, this changes the snapshot builder so that it remembers the last-running-xacts list of the decoded RUNNING_XACTS record after restoring the previously serialized snapshot. Then, we mark the transaction as containing catalog changes if it's in the list of initial running transactions and its commit record has XACT_XINFO_HAS_INVALS. To avoid ABI breakage, we store the array of the initial running transactions in the static variables InitialRunningXacts and NInitialRunningXacts, instead of storing those in SnapBuild or ReorderBuffer. This approach has a false positive; we could end up adding the transaction that didn't change catalog to the snapshot since we cannot distinguish whether the transaction has catalog changes only by checking the COMMIT record. It doesn't have the information on which (sub) transaction has catalog changes, and XACT_XINFO_HAS_INVALS doesn't necessarily indicate that the transaction has catalog change. But that won't be a problem since we use snapshot built during decoding only to read system catalogs. On the master branch, we took a more future-proof approach by writing catalog modifying transactions to the serialized snapshot which avoids the above false positive. But we cannot backpatch it because of a change in the SnapBuild. Reported-by: Mike Oh Author: Masahiko Sawada Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Shi yu, Takamichi Osumi, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Bertrand Drouvot, Ahsan Hadi Backpatch-through: 10 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/81D0D8B0-E7C4-4999-B616-1E5004DBDCD2%40amazon.com	3 years ago
Tom Lane	5179a1ab77	Allow non-quoted identifiers as isolation test session/step names. ... For no obvious reason, isolationtester has always insisted that session and step names be written with double quotes. This is fairly tedious and does little for test readability, especially since the names that people actually choose almost always look like normal identifiers. Hence, let's tweak the lexer to allow SQL-like identifiers not only double-quoted strings. (They're SQL-like, not exactly SQL, because I didn't add any case-folding logic. Also there's no provision for U&"..." names, not that anyone's likely to care.) There is one incompatibility introduced by this change: if you write "foo""bar" with no space, that used to be taken as two identifiers, but now it's just one identifier with an embedded quote mark. I converted all the src/test/isolation/ specfiles to remove unnecessary double quotes, but stopped there because my eyes were glazing over already. Like 741d7f104, back-patch to all supported branches, so that this isn't a stumbling block for back-patching isolation test changes. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/759113.1623861959@sss.pgh.pa.us	4 years ago
Thomas Munro	4c04be9b05	Introduce xid8-based functions to replace txid_XXX. ... The txid_XXX family of fmgr functions exposes 64 bit transaction IDs to users as int8. Now that we have an SQL type xid8 for FullTransactionId, define a new set of functions including pg_current_xact_id() and pg_current_snapshot() based on that. Keep the old functions around too, for now. It's a bit sneaky to use the same C functions for both, but since the binary representation is identical except for the signedness of the type, and since older functions are the ones using the wrong signedness, and since we'll presumably drop the older ones after a reasonable period of time, it seems reasonable to switch to FullTransactionId internally and share the code for both. Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com> Reviewed-by: Takao Fujii <btfujiitkp@oss.nttdata.com> Reviewed-by: Yoshikazu Imai <imai.yoshikazu@fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190725000636.666m5mad25wfbrri%40alap3.anarazel.de	6 years ago
Amit Kapila	e3ff789acf	Stop demanding that top xact must be seen before subxact in decoding. ... Manifested as ERROR: subtransaction logged without previous top-level txn record this check forbids legit behaviours like - First xl_xact_assignment record is beyond reading, i.e. earlier restart_lsn. - After restart_lsn there is some change of a subxact. - After that, there is second xl_xact_assignment (for another subxact) revealing the relationship between top and first subxact. Such a transaction won't be streamed anyway because we hadn't seen it in full. Saying for sure whether xact of some record encountered after the snapshot was deserialized can be streamed or not requires to know whether it wrote something before deserialization point --if yes, it hasn't been seen in full and can't be decoded. Snapshot doesn't have such info, so there is no easy way to relax the check. Reported-by: Hsu, John Diagnosed-by: Arseny Sher Author: Arseny Sher, Amit Kapila Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Dilip Kumar Backpatch-through: 9.5 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/AB5978B2-1772-4FEE-A245-74C91704ECB0@amazon.com	6 years ago
Michael Paquier	06fdc4e4d3	Do more cleanup of isolation tests for test_decoding ... 989d23b has caused its tests to be broken as the module defines unused steps, turning the buildfarm red.	6 years ago
Andres Freund	ef493055b6	Force synchronous commit to be enabled for all test_decoding tests. ... Without that the tests fail when forced to be run against a cluster with synchronous_commit = off (as the WAL might not yet be flushed to disk by the point logical decoding gets called, and thus the expected output breaks). Most tests already do that, add it to a few newer tests. Author: Andres Freund	7 years ago
Alvaro Herrera	8d1c1ca70b	Reduce cost of test_decoding's new oldest_xmin test ... Change a whole-database VACUUM into doing just pg_attribute, which is the portion that verifies what we want it to do. The original formulation wastes a lot of CPU time, which leads the test to fail when runtime exceeds isolationtester timeout when it's super-slow, such as under CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS. Per buildfarm member friarbird. It turns out that the previous shape of the test doesn't always detect the condition it is supposed to detect (on unpatched reorderbuffer code): the reason is that there is a good chance of encountering a xl_running_xacts record (logged every 15 seconds) before the checkpoint -- and because we advance the xmin when we receive that WAL record, and we *don't* advance the xmin twice consecutively without receiving a client message in between, that means the xmin is not advanced enough for the tuple to be pruned from pg_attribute by VACUUM. So the test would spuriously pass. The reason this test deficiency wasn't detected earlier is that HOT pruning removes the tuple anyway, even if vacuum leaves it in place, so the test correctly fails (detecting the coding mistake), but for the wrong reason. To fix this mess, run the s0_get_changes step twice before vacuum instead of once: this seems to cause the xmin to be advanced reliably, wreaking havoc with more certainty. Author: Arseny Sher Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87h8lkuxoa.fsf@ars-thinkpad	7 years ago
Alvaro Herrera	f49a80c481	Fix "base" snapshot handling in logical decoding ... Two closely related bugs are fixed. First, xmin of logical slots was advanced too early. During xl_running_xacts processing, xmin of the slot was set to the oldest running xid in the record, but that's wrong: actually, snapshots which will be used for not-yet-replayed transactions might consider older txns as running too, so we need to keep xmin back for them. The problem wasn't noticed earlier because DDL which allows to delete tuple (set xmax) while some another not-yet-committed transaction looks at it is pretty rare, if not unique: e.g. all forms of ALTER TABLE which change schema acquire ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock conflicting with any inserts. The included test case (test_decoding's oldest_xmin) uses ALTER of a composite type, which doesn't have such interlocking. To deal with this, we must be able to quickly retrieve oldest xmin (oldest running xid among all assigned snapshots) from ReorderBuffer. To fix, add another list of ReorderBufferTXNs to the reorderbuffer, where transactions are sorted by base-snapshot-LSN. This is slightly different from the existing (sorted by first-LSN) list, because a transaction can have an earlier LSN but a later Xmin, if its first record does not obtain an xmin (eg. xl_xact_assignment). Note this new list doesn't fully replace the existing txn list: we still need that one to prevent WAL recycling. The second issue concerns SnapBuilder snapshots and subtransactions. SnapBuildDistributeNewCatalogSnapshot never assigned a snapshot to a transaction that is known to be a subtxn, which is good in the common case that the top-level transaction already has one (no point in doing so), but a bug otherwise. To fix, arrange to transfer the snapshot from the subtxn to its top-level txn as soon as the kinship gets known. test_decoding's snapshot_transfer verifies this. Also, fix a minor memory leak: refcount of toplevel's old base snapshot was not decremented when the snapshot is transferred from child. Liberally sprinkle code comments, and rewrite a few existing ones. This part is my (Álvaro's) contribution to this commit, as I had to write all those comments in order to understand the existing code and Arseny's patch. Reported-by: Arseny Sher <a.sher@postgrespro.ru> Diagnosed-by: Arseny Sher <a.sher@postgrespro.ru> Co-authored-by: Arseny Sher <a.sher@postgrespro.ru> Co-authored-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Reviewed-by: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87lgdyz1wj.fsf@ars-thinkpad	7 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	325f2ec555	Handle heap rewrites even better in logical decoding ... Logical decoding should not publish anything about tables created as part of a heap rewrite during DDL. Those tables don't exist externally, so consumers of logical decoding cannot do anything sensible with that information. In ab28feae2b, we worked around this for built-in logical replication, but that was hack. This is a more proper fix: We mark such transient heaps using the new field pg_class.relwrite, linking to the original relation OID. By default, we ignore them in logical decoding before they get to the output plugin. Optionally, a plugin can register their interest in getting such changes, if they handle DDL specially, in which case the new field will help them get information about the actual table. Reviewed-by: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>	8 years ago
Andres Freund	955a684e04	Fix race condition leading to hanging logical slot creation. ... The snapshot assembly during the creation of logical slots relied waiting for transactions in xl_running_xacts to end, by checking for their commit/abort records. Unfortunately, despite locking, it is possible to see an xl_running_xact record listing transactions as ready, that have already WAL-logged an commit/abort record, as the locking just prevents the ProcArray to be adjusted, and the commit record has to be logged first. That lead to either delayed or hanging snapshot creation, because snapbuild.c would wait "forever" to see commit/abort records for some transactions. That hang resolved only if a xl_running_xacts record without any running transactions happened to be logged, far from certain on a busy server. It's impractical to prevent that via more heavyweight locking, the likelihood of deadlocks and significantly increased contention would be too big. Instead change the initial snapshot creation to be solely based on tracking the oldest running transaction via xl_running_xacts->oldestRunningXid - that actually ends up significantly simplifying the code. That has two disadvantages: 1) Because we cannot fully "trust" the contents of xl_running_xacts, we cannot use it to build the initial snapshot. Instead we have to wait twice for all running transactions to finish. 2) Previously a slot, unless the race occurred, could be created when the all transaction perceived as running based on commit/abort records, now we have to wait for the next xl_running_xacts record. To address that, trigger logging new xl_running_xacts record from within snapbuild.c exactly when necessary. Unfortunately snabuild.c's SnapBuild is stored on disk, one of the stupider ideas of a certain Mr Freund, so we can't change it in a minor release. As this is going to be backpatched, we have to hack around a bit to keep on-disk compatibility. A later commit will rejigger that on master. Author: Andres Freund, based on a quite different patch from Petr Jelinek Analyzed-By: Petr Jelinek Reviewed-By: Petr Jelinek Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f37e975c-908f-858e-707f-058d3b1eb214@2ndquadrant.com Backpatch: 9.4-, where logical decoding has been introduced	8 years ago
Andres Freund	1986c3c440	Force synchronous_commit=on in test_decoding's concurrent_ddl_dml.spec. ... Otherwise running installcheck-force on a server with synchronous_commit=off will result in the tests failing. All the other tests already do so... Backpatch: 9.4, where logical decoding was added	10 years ago
Robert Haas	5243a35825	Remove bogus step from test_decoding isolation tests. ... Commit 43b4a16817 made the isolation tester reject duplicate step names, and it turns out that the test_decoding module's concurrent_ddl_dml isolation test has a duplicate name. I think the second definition isn't actually getting used, so just remove it. Per buildfarm.	10 years ago
Heikki Linnakangas	4fc72cc7bb	Collection of typo fixes. ... Use "a" and "an" correctly, mostly in comments. Two error messages were also fixed (they were just elogs, so no translation work required). Two function comments in pg_proc.h were also fixed. Etsuro Fujita reported one of these, but I found a lot more with grep. Also fix a few other typos spotted while grepping for the a/an typos. For example, "consists out of ..." -> "consists of ...". Plus a "though"/ "through" mixup reported by Euler Taveira. Many of these typos were in old code, which would be nice to backpatch to make future backpatching easier. But much of the code was new, and I didn't feel like crafting separate patches for each branch. So no backpatching.	10 years ago
Andres Freund	ec5896aed3	Fix several weaknesses in slot and logical replication on-disk serialization. ... Heikki noticed in 544E23C0.8090605@vmware.com that slot.c and snapbuild.c were missing the FIN_CRC32 call when computing/checking checksums of on disk files. That doesn't lower the the error detection capabilities of the checksum, but is inconsistent with other usages. In a followup mail Heikki also noticed that, contrary to a comment, the 'version' and 'length' struct fields of replication slot's on disk data where not covered by the checksum. That's not likely to lead to actually missed corruption as those fields are cross checked with the expected version and the actual file length. But it's wrong nonetheless. As fixing these issues makes existing on disk files unreadable, bump the expected versions of on disk files for both slots and logical decoding historic catalog snapshots. This means that loading old files will fail with ERROR: "replication slot file ... has unsupported version 1" and ERROR: "snapbuild state file ... has unsupported version 1 instead of 2" respectively. Given the low likelihood of anybody already using these new features in a production setup that seems acceptable. Fixing these issues made me notice that there's no regression test covering the loading of historic snapshot from disk - so add one. Backpatch to 9.4 where these features were introduced.	11 years ago
Andres Freund	d6fa44fce7	Add skip-empty-xacts option to test_decoding for use in the regression tests. ... The regression tests for contrib/test_decoding regularly failed on postgres instances that were very slow. Either because the hardware itself was slow or because very expensive debugging options like CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS were used. The reason they failed was just that some additional transactions were decoded. Analyze and vacuum, triggered by autovac. To fix just add a option to test_decoding to only display transactions in which a change was actually displayed. That's not pretty because it removes information from the tests; but better than constantly failing tests in very likely harmless ways. Backpatch to 9.4 where logical decoding was introduced. Discussion: 20140629142511.GA26930@awork2.anarazel.de	11 years ago
Robert Haas	b89e151054	Introduce logical decoding. ... This feature, building on previous commits, allows the write-ahead log stream to be decoded into a series of logical changes; that is, inserts, updates, and deletes and the transactions which contain them. It is capable of handling decoding even across changes to the schema of the effected tables. The output format is controlled by a so-called "output plugin"; an example is included. To make use of this in a real replication system, the output plugin will need to be modified to produce output in the format appropriate to that system, and to perform filtering. Currently, information can be extracted from the logical decoding system only via SQL; future commits will add the ability to stream changes via walsender. Andres Freund, with review and other contributions from many other people, including Álvaro Herrera, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Peter Gheogegan, Kevin Grittner, Robert Haas, Heikki Linnakangas, Fujii Masao, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Michael Paquier, Simon Riggs, Craig Ringer, and Steve Singer.	12 years ago