Re: add log messages when replication slots become active and inactive (was Re: Is it worth adding ReplicationSlot active_pid to ReplicationSlotPersistentData?)

On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 2:57 PM Bharath Rupireddy
<bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 4:02 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> >
> > If I read the code right, this patch emits logs when
> > pg_logical_slot_get_changes and pg_replication_slot_advance SQL
> > functions are called.  Is this desirable/useful, for the use case you
> > stated at start of thread?  I think it is most likely pointless.  If you
> > get rid of those, then the only acquisitions that would log messages are
> > those in StartReplication and StartLogicalReplication.  So I wonder if
> > it would be better to leave the API of ReplicationSlotAcquire() alone,
> > and instead make StartReplication and StartLogicalReplication
> > responsible for those messages.
> >
> > I didn't look at the release-side messages you're adding, but I suppose
> > it should be symmetrical.

Here's the v6 patch, a much simpler one - no changes to any of the
existing function APIs. Please see the sample logs at [1]. There's a
bit of duplicate code in the v6 patch, if the overall approach looks
okay, I can remove that too in the next version of the patch.

Thoughts?

[1]
2022-07-25 12:30:14.847 UTC [152873] LOG:  acquired physical
replication slot "foo"
2022-07-25 12:30:20.878 UTC [152873] LOG:  released physical
replication slot "foo"

2022-07-25 12:49:18.023 UTC [168738] LOG:  acquired logical
replication slot "bar"
2022-07-25 12:49:28.105 UTC [168738] LOG:  released logical
replication slot "bar"

Regards,
Bharath Rupireddy.