Re: "out of relcache_callback_list slots" after multiple calls to pg_logical_slot_get_binary_changes

Good catch!

At Sun, 19 Feb 2023 02:40:31 +0000, "shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com" <shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com> wrote in 
> init_rel_sync_cache()), but they are not unregistered when it shutdowns. So,
> after multiple calls to the function, MAX_RELCACHE_CALLBACKS is exceeded. This
> is mentioned in the following comment.
> 
>     /*
>      * We can get here if the plugin was used in SQL interface as the
>      * RelSchemaSyncCache is destroyed when the decoding finishes, but there
>      * is no way to unregister the relcache invalidation callback.
>      */
>     if (RelationSyncCache == NULL)
>         return;
> 
> Could we fix it by adding two new function to unregister relcache callback and
> syscache callback? I tried to do so in the attached patch.

I'm pretty sure that everytime an output plugin is initialized on a
process, it installs the same set of syscache/relcache callbacks each
time.  Do you think we could simply stop duplicate registration of
those callbacks by using a static boolean?  It would be far simpler.

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center