Re: Introduce XID age and inactive timeout based replication slot invalidation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)
<houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> 3.
>
> +                       if (cause & RS_INVAL_HORIZON)
> +                       {
> +                               if (!SlotIsLogical(s))
> +                                       goto invalidation_marked;
>
> I am not sure if this logic is correct. Even if the slot would not be
> invalidated due to RS_INVAL_HORIZON, we should continue to check other causes.
>

Isn't this comment apply to even the next condition (if (dboid !=
InvalidOid && dboid != s->data.database))? We need to probably
continue to check other invalidation causes unless one is set.

> Besides, instead of using a goto, I personally prefer to move all these codes
> into a separate function which would return a single invalidation cause.
>

Instead of using goto label (invalidation_marked:), won't it be better
if we use a boolean invalidation_marked and convert all if's to if ..
else if .. else cases?

> 4.
> -       if (InvalidateObsoleteReplicationSlots(RS_INVAL_WAL_REMOVED,
> +       if (InvalidateObsoleteReplicationSlots(RS_INVAL_WAL_REMOVED | RS_INVAL_IDLE_TIMEOUT,
>                                                                                    _logSegNo, InvalidOid,
>                                                                                    InvalidTransactionId))
>
> I think this change could trigger an unnecessary WAL position re-calculation when
> slots are invalidated only due to RS_INVAL_IDLE_TIMEOUT.
>

Why is that unnecessary? If some slots got invalidated due to timeout,
we don't want to retain the WAL corresponding to them.


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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.