Re: Slow catchup of 2PC (twophase) transactions on replica in LR

On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 4:02 PM vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 08:39, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 9:13 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > >
> > > Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> writes:
> > > > I merged these changes, made a few other cosmetic changes, and pushed the patch.
> > >
> > > There is a CF entry pointing at this thread [1].  Should it be closed?
> > >
> >
> > Yes, closed now. Thanks for the reminder.
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> I noticed one random test failure in my environment with 021_twophase test.
> [10:37:01.131](0.053s) ok 24 - should be no prepared transactions on subscriber
> error running SQL: 'psql:<stdin>:2: ERROR:  cannot alter two_phase
> when logical replication worker is still running
> HINT:  Try again after some time.'
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> We can reproduce the issue by adding a delay at apply_worker_exit like
> in the attached Reproduce_random_021_twophase_test_failure.patch
> patch.
>
> This is happening because the check here is wrong:
> +$node_subscriber->poll_query_until('postgres',
> +   "SELECT count(*) = 0 FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE backend_type =
> 'logical replication worker'"
>
> Here "logical replication worker" should be "logical replication apply worker".
>
> Attached patch has the changes for the same.
>

LGTM.

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.