Re: Replication slot stats misgivings - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Amit Kapila
Subject Re: Replication slot stats misgivings
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Msg-id CAA4eK1KBDMFoN=xHLsKCUcBRbgJtAOf=+7XqhzusJ0yHvY0g6g@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Replication slot stats misgivings  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 2:57 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2021-03-20 10:28:06 +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 9:25 AM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > This idea is worth exploring to address the complaints but what do we
> > > do when we detect that the stats are from the different slot? It has
> > > mixed of stats from the old and new slot. We need to probably reset it
> > > after we detect that.
> > >
> >
> > What if the user created a slot with the same name after dropping the
> > slot and it has used the same index. I think chances are less but
> > still a possibility, but maybe that is okay.
> >
> > > What if after some frequency (say whenever we
> > > run out of indexes) we check whether the slots we are maintaining is
> > > pgstat.c have some stale slot entry (entry exists but the actual slot
> > > is dropped)?
> > >
> >
> > A similar drawback (the user created a slot with the same name after
> > dropping it) exists with this as well.
>
> pgstat_report_replslot_drop() already prevents that, no?
>

Yeah, normally it would prevent that but what if a drop message is lost?

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.



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