If contrib/pageinspect is not installed, this causes the test checking
the minimum recovery point to fail. The point is that the dependency
with pageinspect is not really necessary as the test does also all
checks with an offline cluster by scanning directly the on-disk pages,
which is enough for the purpose of the test.
Per complaint from Tom Lane.
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17806.1555566345@sss.pgh.pa.us
c186ba13 has fixed an issue related to the updates of the minimum
recovery LSN across multiple processes on standbys, but we never really
had a test case able to reliably check its logic.
This commit introduces a new test case to close the gap, and is designed
to check the consistency of data based on the minimum recovery point set
by either the startup process or the checkpointer for both an offline
cluster (by looking at the on-disk page headers) and an online cluster
(using pageinspect).
Note that with c186ba13 reverted, this test fails badly for both the
online and offline cases, as designed.
Author: Michael Paquier, Andrew Gierth
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gierth, Georgios Kokolatos, Arthur Zakirov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181108044525.GA17482@paquier.xyz
Uses page-based mechanism to ensure we’re using the correct timeline.
Tests are included to exercise the functionality using a cold disk-level copy
of the master that's started up as a replica with slots intact, but the
intended use of the functionality is with later features.
Craig Ringer, reviewed by Simon Riggs and Andres Freund
When pg_logical_slot_get_changes(...) sets confirmed_flush_lsn to the point at
which replay stopped, it doesn't dirty the replication slot. So if the replay
didn't cause restart_lsn or catalog_xmin to change as well, this change will
not get written out to disk. Even on a clean shutdown.
If Pg crashes or restarts, a subsequent pg_logical_slot_get_changes(...) call
will see the same changes already replayed since it uses the slot's
confirmed_flush_lsn as the start point for fetching changes. The caller can't
specify a start LSN when using the SQL interface.
Mark the slot as dirty after reading changes using the SQL interface so that
users won't see repeated changes after a clean shutdown. Repeated changes still
occur when using the walsender interface or after an unclean shutdown.
Craig Ringer
This reverts commits f07d18b6e94d, 82c83b337202, 3a3b309041b0, and
24c5f1a103ce.
This feature has shown enough immaturity that it was deemed better to
rip it out before rushing some more fixes at the last minute. There are
discussions on larger changes in this area for the next release.
When decoding from a logical slot, it's necessary for xlog reading to be
able to read xlog from historical (i.e. not current) timelines;
otherwise, decoding fails after failover, because the archives are in
the historical timeline. This is required to make "failover logical
slots" possible; it currently has no other use, although theoretically
it could be used by an extension that creates a slot on a standby and
continues to replay from the slot when the standby is promoted.
This commit includes a module in src/test/modules with functions to
manipulate the slots (which is not otherwise possible in SQL code) in
order to enable testing, and a new test in src/test/recovery to ensure
that the behavior is as expected.
Author: Craig Ringer
Reviewed-By: Oleksii Kliukin, Andres Freund, Petr Jelínek