Fix publisher shutdown hang caused by logical walsender busy loop. Previously, when logical replication was running, shutting down the publisher could cause the logical walsender to enter a busy loop and prevent the publisher from completing shutdown.
During shutdown, the logical walsender waits for all pending WAL to be written out. However, some WAL records could remain unflushed, causing the walsender to wait indefinitely. The issue occurred because the walsender used XLogBackgroundFlush() to flush pending WAL. This function does not guarantee that all WAL is written. For example, WAL generated by a transaction without an assigned transaction ID that aborts might not be flushed. This commit fixes the bug by making the logical walsender call XLogFlush() instead, ensuring that all pending WAL is written and preventing the busy loop during shutdown. Backpatch to all supported versions. Author: Anthonin Bonnefoy <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Alexander Lakhin <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <[email protected]> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cao6_xqo3co3buuvevzkabvw9lidbgeeq_2hfxelmqcxwovb...@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 14 Branch ------ REL_18_STABLE Details ------- https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3eb2fecdbbfc0336888770d4c8c727b44e456393 Modified Files -------------- src/backend/replication/walsender.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
