On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 10:37 AM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 11:43 AM Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I thought we just want to lock before clearing the skip_xid something > > like take the lock, check if the skip_xid in the catalog is the same > > as we have skipped, if it is the same then clear it, otherwise, leave > > it as it is. How will that disallow users to change skip_xid when we > > are skipping changes? > > Oh I thought we wanted to keep holding the lock while skipping changes > (changing skip_xid requires acquiring the lock). > > So if skip_xid is already changed, the apply worker would do > replorigin_advance() with WAL logging, instead of committing the > catalog change? >
Right. BTW, how are you planning to advance the origin? Normally, a commit transaction would do it but when we are skipping all changes, the commit might not do it as there won't be any transaction id assigned. -- With Regards, Amit Kapila.