Since its introduction, LogLogicalMessage() (via the SQL interface
pg_logical_emit_message()) has never included a call to XLogFlush(),
causing it to potentially lose messages on a crash when used in
non-transactional mode. This has come up to me as a problem while
playing with ideas to design a test suite for what has become
039_end_of_wal.pl introduced in bae868caf2 by Thomas Munro, because
there are no direct ways to force a WAL flush via SQL.
The default is false, to not flush messages and influence existing
use-cases where this function could be used. If set to true, the
message emitted is flushed before returning back to the caller, making
the message durable on crash. This new option has no effect when using
pg_logical_emit_message() in transactional mode, as the record's flush
is guaranteed by the WAL record generated by the transaction committed.
Two queries of test_decoding are tweaked to cover the new code path for
the flush.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Amit Kapila, Fujii Masao, Tung Nguyen, Tomas
Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZNsdThSe2qgsfs7R@paquier.xyz
In test_decoding module, when skip_empty_xacts option was specified, add
BEGIN/COMMIT for transactional messages. This makes the handling of
transactional messages consistent irrespective of whether skip_empty_xacts
option was specified.
We decided not to backpatch this change because skip_empty_xacts is
primarily used to have consistent test results across different runs and
this change won't help with that.
Author: Vignesh C
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Hou Zhijie
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAExHW5ujRhbOz6_aTq_jQA8NjeFqq9d_8G9viShWvXx8gdSXiQ@mail.gmail.com
Logical messages, added in 3fe3511d05, during decoding failed to filter
messages emitted in other databases and messages emitted "under" a
replication origin the output plugin isn't interested in.
Add tests to verify that both types of filtering actually work. While
touching message.sql remove hunk obsoleted by d25379e.
Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC because xl_logical_message changed and because
3fe3511d05 had omitted doing so. 3fe3511d05 additionally didn't bump
catversion, but 7a542700d has done so since.
Author: Petr Jelinek
Reported-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: 20160406142513.wotqy3ba3kanr423@alap3.anarazel.de
API and mechanism to allow generic messages to be inserted into WAL that are
intended to be read by logical decoding plugins. This commit adds an optional
new callback to the logical decoding API.
Messages are either text or bytea. Messages can be transactional, or not, and
are identified by a prefix to allow multiple concurrent decoding plugins.
(Not to be confused with Generic WAL records, which are intended to allow crash
recovery of extensible objects.)
Author: Petr Jelinek and Andres Freund
Reviewers: Artur Zakirov, Tomas Vondra, Simon Riggs
Discussion: 5685F999.6010202@2ndquadrant.com
Michael Paquier