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

From Masahiko Sawada
Subject Re: Replication slot stats misgivings
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Msg-id CAD21AoD34aN9F7vYXrYfzfuFA93gX=s7_Ge-cDObjXWyUx9JPw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Replication slot stats misgivings  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Responses Re: Replication slot stats misgivings
Re: Replication slot stats misgivings
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On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 3:52 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
> - If max_replication_slots was lowered between a restart,
>   pgstat_read_statfile() will happily write beyond the end of
>   replSlotStats.

I think we cannot restart the server after lowering
max_replication_slots to a value less than the number of replication
slots actually created on the server. No?

>
> - pgstat_reset_replslot_counter() acquires ReplicationSlotControlLock. I
>   think pgstat.c has absolutely no business doing things on that level.

Agreed.

>
> - PgStat_ReplSlotStats etc use slotname[NAMEDATALEN]. Why not just NameData?

That's because we followed other definitions in pgstat.h that use
char[NAMEDATALEN]. I'm okay with using NameData.

>
> - pgstat_report_replslot() already has a lot of stats parameters, it
>   seems likely that we'll get more. Seems like we should just use a
>   struct of stats updates.

Agreed.

Regards,

-- 
Masahiko Sawada
EDB:  https://www.enterprisedb.com/



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