Review logical replication tablesync code
authorAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Thu, 15 Oct 2020 14:33:48 +0000 (11:33 -0300)
committerAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Thu, 15 Oct 2020 14:35:51 +0000 (11:35 -0300)
commitb05fe7b442fd185b9705c537adb602b3b9d49518
treed3d23a0ee4ce7112fcec554416c358ef3e2cdd22
parentc5b097f8fa69861ab83470c0bfe732ab90df9e62
Review logical replication tablesync code

Most importantly, remove optimization in LogicalRepSyncTableStart that
skips the normal walrcv_startstreaming/endstreaming dance.  The
optimization is not critically important for production uses anyway,
since it only fires in cases with no activity, and saves an
uninteresting amount of work even then.  Critically, it obscures bugs by
hiding the interesting code path from test cases.

Also: in GetSubscriptionRelState, remove pointless relation open; access
pg_subscription_rel->srsubstate with GETSTRUCT as is typical rather than
SysCacheGetAttr; remove unused 'missing_ok' argument.
In wait_for_relation_state_change, use explicit catalog snapshot
invalidation rather than obscurely (and expensively) through
GetLatestSnapshot.
In various places: sprinkle comments more liberally and rewrite a number
of them.  Other cosmetic code improvements.

No backpatch, since no bug is being fixed here.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Jelínek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201010190637.GA5774@alvherre.pgsql
src/backend/catalog/pg_subscription.c
src/backend/replication/logical/relation.c
src/backend/replication/logical/tablesync.c
src/backend/replication/logical/worker.c
src/include/catalog/pg_subscription_rel.h