On 2020-Nov-23, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2020-11-23 12:30:05 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > PROC_IN_LOGICAL_DECODING:
> > Oddly enough, I think the reset of PROC_IN_LOGICAL_DECODING in
> > ReplicationSlotRelease might be the most problematic one of the lot.
> > That's because a proc's xmin that had been ignored all along by
> > ComputeXidHorizons, will now be included in the computation. Adding
> > asserts that proc->xmin and proc->xid are InvalidXid by the time we
> > reset the flag, I got hits in pg_basebackup, test_decoding and
> > subscription tests. I think it's OK for ComputeXidHorizons (since it
> > just means that a vacuum that reads a later will remove less rows.) But
> > in GetSnapshotData it is just not correct to have the Xmin go backwards.
>
> I don't think there's a problem. PROC_IN_LOGICAL_DECODING can only be
> set when outside a transaction block, i.e. walsender. In which case
> there shouldn't be an xid/xmin, I think? Or did you gate your assert on
> PROC_IN_LOGICAL_DECODING being set?
Ah, you're right about this one -- I missed the significance of setting
the flag only "when outside of a transaction block" at the time we call
StartupDecodingContext.