Re: Logical Replication of sequences - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From vignesh C
Subject Re: Logical Replication of sequences
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Msg-id CALDaNm0ktmqgYoTa5PCMu1ErcOdrai_VDeE18bOZjL4r8YbkNw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to RE: Logical Replication of sequences  ("Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>)
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On Wed, 3 Sept 2025 at 13:04, Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)
<kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Vignesh,
>
> Thanks for updating the patch. Few comments:
> 01.
> ```
>         /* Find the leader apply worker and signal it. */
>         logicalrep_worker_wakeup(MyLogicalRepWorker->subid, InvalidOid);
> ```
>
> Sequencesync worker does not need to send a signal to the apply worker.
> Should we skip in the case?
> Per my understanding, the signal is being used to set the status to STATE_READY.

Modified

> 02.
> ```
>         if (worker)
>                 worker->last_seqsync_start_time = 0;
>
>         LWLockRelease(LogicalRepWorkerLock);
> ```
>
> I feel we can release LWLock first then update last_seqsync_start_time.

I felt it should be done within lock so that
ProcessSyncingSequencesForApply waits till the last_seqsync_start_time
is also set.

> 03.
> Sequencesync worker cannot update its GUC parameters because ProcessConfigFile()
> is not called. How about checking the signal at the end of batch loop?

Modified

> 04.
> ```
>                         while (search_pos < total_seqs)
>                         {
>                                 LogicalRepSequenceInfo *candidate_seq = lfirst(list_nth_cell(sequences_to_copy,
search_pos));
>
>                                 if (!strcmp(candidate_seq->nspname, nspname) &&
>                                         !strcmp(candidate_seq->seqname, seqname))
>                                 {
>                                         seqinfo = candidate_seq;
>                                         search_pos++;
>                                         break;
>                                 }
>
>                                 search_pos++;
>                         }
> ```
>
> It looks like that if the entry in sequences_to_copy is skipped, it won't be
> referred anymore. I feel this is method is bit dangerous, because ordering of
> the list may be different with the returned tuples from the publisher. Nodes may
> use the different collations.

Modified

The attached patch has the changes for the same.

Regards,
Vignesh

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