Re: wake up logical workers after ALTER SUBSCRIPTION

On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 11:42 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 02:07:11PM +0300, Melih Mutlu wrote:
> > Do we also need to wake up all sync workers too? Even if not, I'm not
> > actually sure whether doing that would harm anything though.
> > Just asking since currently the patch wakes up all workers including sync
> > workers if any still exists.
>
> After sleeping on this, I think we can do better.  IIUC we can simply check
> for AllTablesyncsReady() at the end of process_syncing_tables_for_apply()
> and wake up the logical replication workers (which should just consiѕt of
> setting the current process's latch) if we are ready for two_phase mode.
>

How just waking up will help with two_phase mode? For that, we need to
restart the apply worker as we are doing at the beginning of
process_syncing_tables_for_apply().

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.