Re: subscriptioncheck failure - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Amit Kapila
Subject Re: subscriptioncheck failure
Date
Msg-id CAA4eK1+xyrOUZCqOwqC1OS1xOPGAFLmN8icWhT2k0xHWq5cSAA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: subscriptioncheck failure  (vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 7:06 PM vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 4:41 PM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 04:14:55PM +0530, vignesh C wrote:
> > > +$node_publisher->wait_for_catchup('tap_sub');
> > > +
> > >  # Ensure a transactional logical decoding message shows up on the slot
> > >  $node_subscriber->safe_psql('postgres', "ALTER SUBSCRIPTION tap_sub DISABLE");
> > >
> > >  # wait for the replication connection to drop from the publisher
> > >  $node_publisher->poll_query_until('postgres',
> > > -     'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pg_catalog.pg_stat_replication', 0);
> > > +     "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pg_catalog.pg_replication_slots WHERE slot_name = 'tap_sub' AND active='f'", 1);
> >
> > There are three places in this test where a slot is disabled, followed
> > by a wait to make sure that the slot is gone.  Perhaps it would be
> > better to wrap that in a small-ish routine?
>
> Thanks for the comments, Please find the attached patch having the changes.
>

Few comments:
1.
+ # Ensure a transactional logical decoding message shows up on the slot
+ $node_subscriber->safe_psql('postgres', "ALTER SUBSCRIPTION tap_sub DISABLE");

After you have encapsulated this command in the function, the above
comment doesn't make sense because we do this for both transactional
and non-transactional messages. I suggest we can change it to
something like: "This is done to ensure a logical decoding message is
shown up on the slot".

2.
+# Setup the subscription before checking pg_logical_slot_peek_binary_changes
+sub setup_subscription

I think here the functionality is more for the catchup of
subscription, so it might be better to name the function as
subscription_catchup or catchup_subscription. I think you can expand
the comments atop this function a bit as suggested by Michael.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.



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