Fix walsender timeouts when decoding a large transaction
The logical slots have a fast code path for sending data so as not to
impose too high a per message overhead. The fast path skips checks for
interrupts and timeouts. However, the existing coding failed to consider
the fact that a transaction with a large number of changes may take a
very long time to be processed and sent to the client. This causes the
walsender to ignore interrupts for potentially a long time and more
importantly it will result in the walsender being killed due to
timeout at the end of such a transaction.
This commit changes the fast path to also check for interrupts and only
allows calling the fast path when the last keepalive check happened less
than half the walsender timeout ago. Otherwise the slower code path will
be taken.
Backpatched to 9.4
Petr Jelinek, reviewed by Kyotaro HORIGUCHI, Yura Sokolov, Craig
Ringer and Robert Haas.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e082a56a-fd95-a250-3bae-0fff93832510@2ndquadrant.com
Branch
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master
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0fedb4ea6946e72c5c51130446b59b083ba3dd21
Modified Files
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src/backend/replication/walsender.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)