Allow logical decoding on standbys
Unsurprisingly, this requires wal_level = logical to be set on the primary and
standby. The infrastructure added in 26669757b6a ensures that slots are
invalidated if the primary's wal_level is lowered.
Creating a slot on a standby waits for a xl_running_xact record to be
processed. If the primary is idle (and thus not emitting xl_running_xact
records), that can take a while. To make that faster, this commit also
introduces the pg_log_standby_snapshot() function. By executing it on the
primary, completion of slot creation on the standby can be accelerated.
Note that logical decoding on a standby does not itself enforce that required
catalog rows are not removed. The user has to use physical replication slots +
hot_standby_feedback or other measures to prevent that. If catalog rows
required for a slot are removed, the slot is invalidated.
See 6af1793954e for an overall design of logical decoding on a standby.
Bumps catversion, for the addition of the pg_log_standby_snapshot() function.
Author: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (in an older version)
Author: Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan.pg@gmail.com> (in an older version)
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: FabrÌzio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Branch
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master
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0fdab27ad68a059a1663fa5ce48d76333f1bd74c
Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/func.sgml | 15 ++++++++
doc/src/sgml/logicaldecoding.sgml | 27 +++++++++++++++
src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c | 11 ++++++
src/backend/access/transam/xlogfuncs.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++
src/backend/catalog/system_functions.sql | 2 ++
src/backend/replication/logical/decode.c | 30 +++++++++++++++-
src/backend/replication/logical/logical.c | 36 ++++++++++---------
src/backend/replication/slot.c | 57 ++++++++++++++++---------------
src/backend/replication/walsender.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++---------
src/include/access/xlog.h | 1 +
src/include/catalog/catversion.h | 2 +-
src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat | 3 ++
12 files changed, 202 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)