Fix data loss in logical replication.
Data loss can happen when the DDLs like ALTER PUBLICATION ... ADD TABLE ...
or ALTER TYPE ... that don't take a strong lock on table happens
concurrently to DMLs on the tables involved in the DDL. This happens
because logical decoding doesn't distribute invalidations to concurrent
transactions and those transactions use stale cache data to decode the
changes. The problem becomes bigger because we keep using the stale cache
even after those in-progress transactions are finished and skip the
changes required to be sent to the client.
This commit fixes the issue by distributing invalidation messages from
catalog-modifying transactions to all concurrent in-progress transactions.
This allows the necessary rebuild of the catalog cache when decoding new
changes after concurrent DDL.
We observed performance regression primarily during frequent execution of
*publication DDL* statements that modify the published tables. The
regression is minor or nearly nonexistent for DDLs that do not affect the
published tables or occur infrequently, making this a worthwhile cost to
resolve a longstanding data loss issue.
An alternative approach considered was to take a strong lock on each
affected table during publication modification. However, this would only
address issues related to publication DDLs (but not the ALTER TYPE ...)
and require locking every relation in the database for publications
created as FOR ALL TABLES, which is impractical.
The bug exists in all supported branches, but we are backpatching till 14.
The fix for 13 requires somewhat bigger changes than this fix, so the fix
for that branch is still under discussion.
Reported-by: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com>
Reported-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Author: Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com>
Author: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhijie Hou <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Benoit Lobréau <benoit.lobreau@dalibo.com>
Backpatch-through: 14
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/de52b282-1166-1180-45a2-8d8917ca74c6@enterprisedb.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAenVqiMjpN-PvGHL1N9DWnHSq673bfgr6phmBUzx=kLQ@mail.gmail.com
Branch
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REL_16_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9a2f8b4f01d5a40b8b080f6b108ae314a6730cec
Modified Files
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contrib/test_decoding/Makefile | 2 +-
.../expected/invalidation_distrubution.out | 20 +++++++
contrib/test_decoding/meson.build | 1 +
.../specs/invalidation_distrubution.spec | 32 +++++++++++
src/backend/replication/logical/reorderbuffer.c | 23 ++++++++
src/backend/replication/logical/snapbuild.c | 67 +++++++++++++++++-----
src/include/replication/reorderbuffer.h | 4 ++
7 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
