Re: BUG #18988: DROP SUBSCRIPTION locks not-yet-accessed database

On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Won't that add a new restriction that one can't drop postgres database
> > after this?
>
> That's correct, so maybe this is not acceptable IMHO.
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> > BTW, isn't it better to acquire the share_lock on subscription during
> > worker initialization (InitializeLogRepWorker()) where we already
> > checking whether the subscription is dropped by that time? I think if
> > we don't acquire the lock on subscription during launcher or during
> > InitializeLogRepWorker(), there is a risk that DropSubscription would
> > have reached the place where it would have tried to stop the workers
> > and launcher will launch the worker after that point. Then there is a
> > possibility of dangling worker because the GetSubscription() can still
> > return valid value as the transaction in which we are dropping a
> > subscription could still be in-progress.
>
> Here is my thought on these 2 approaches, so if we lock in launcher
> and check there we avoid launching the worker altogether but for that
> we will have to revalidate the subscription using sequence scan on
> pg_subcription as we can not open additional indexes as we are not
> connected to any database OTOH if we acquire lock in
> InitializeLogRepWorker() we don't need to do any additional scan but
> we will have to launch the worker and after that if subscription
> recheck shows its dropped we will exit the worker.
>
> I think either way it's fine because this is not a very common
> performance path, I prefer what you proposed as we will have to add
> less code in this case, because we are already checking the
> subscription and just need to acquire the shared object lock in
> InitializeLogRepWorker(), lets see what other thinks, meanwhile I will
> modify the code with this approach as well.

Here is a patch with a different approach.  IMHO with this approach
the code change is much simpler.

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Regards,
Dilip Kumar
Google