On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 10:14 AM Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 9:38 AM Peter Smith <smithpb2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 1:54 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 6:48 AM Peter Smith <smithpb2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 12:19 AM Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com> 
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I have made the below changes in the patch. Let me know what you think
> > > > > about these?
> > > > > 1. It was a bit difficult to understand the code in DropSubscription
> > > > > so I have rearranged the code to match the way we are doing in HEAD
> > > > > where we drop the slots at the end after finishing all the other
> > > > > cleanup.
> > > >
> > > > There was a reason why the v22 logic was different from HEAD.
> > > >
> > > > The broken connection leaves dangling slots which is unavoidable.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I think this is true only when the user specifically requested it by
> > > the use of "ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... SET (slot_name = NONE)", right?
> > > Otherwise, we give an error on a broken connection. Also, if that is
> > > true then is there a reason to pass missing_ok as true while dropping
> > > tablesync slots?
> > >
> >
> > AFAIK there is always a potential race with DropSubscription dropping
> > slots. The DropSubscription might be running at exactly the same time
> > the apply worker has just dropped the very same tablesync slot.
> >
>
> We stopped the workers before getting a list of NotReady relations and
> then we try to drop the corresponding slots. So, how such a race
> condition can happen?
>

I think it is possible that the state is still not SYNCDONE but the
slot is already dropped so here we should be ready with the missing
slot.


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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.


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