Re: Fix stats reporting delays in logical parallel apply worker

> On Apr 17, 2026, at 11:35, Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu) <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday, April 17, 2026 11:01 AM Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu) <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When implementing another feature, I noticed that parallel apply workers
>> currently do not report statistics while idle in their main loop. This can cause
>> stats from the last processed transaction to be arbitrarily delayed, especially
>> when there are long gaps between streamed transactions.
>>
>> The issue is demonstrated in 0002, where a TAP test fails when attempting to
>> collect stats from a parallel apply worker that has no subsequent transaction
>> to
>> trigger a stats report.
>>
>> 0001 fixes this issue by forcing a stats report when the worker is idle in the
>> main loop, matching the behavior already present in LogicalRepApplyLoop()
>> for
>> regular logical apply workers.
>
> Regarding 0002, I realized that the streaming option is now set to 'parallel' by
> default so can avoid adjusting the option again. The test needs to be adjusted
> to increase the worker limit so that a parallel worker can start. Here are the
> updated patches.
>
> Best Regards,
> Hou zj
>
<v2-0001-Fix-stats-reporting-delays-in-parallel-apply-work.patch><v2-0002-Test-the-stats-report-in-parallel-apply-worker.patch>

I think WaitLatch will never return WL_LATCH_SET and WL_TIMEOUT together, so we can do “else if (rc & WL_TIMEOUT) &&
!IsTransactionState())”,so that upon WL_LATCH_SET, it skips the WL_TIMEOUT check, which could be slightly more
efficient.

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