feat: add native failover-slot support for Spock 6 - #458
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server/internal/postgres/create_db_test.go (1)
97-102: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAlso assert the deterministic ordering clause.
InstanceMonitor.reconcileSynchronizedStandbySlotscompares the joined slot names against the live GUC as a plain string. That comparison is only stable because the query returns rows in a fixed order. Add an assertion forORDER BY slot_nameso a later edit cannot remove it and cause a patch and reload on every poll.♻️ Proposed test addition
func TestPhysicalReplicationSlotNames(t *testing.T) { query := postgres.PhysicalReplicationSlotNames() assert.Contains(t, query.SQL, "slot_type = 'physical'") assert.Contains(t, query.SQL, "NOT temporary", "must exclude temporary slots -- they vanish with their creating session and shouldn't be depended on") + assert.Contains(t, query.SQL, "ORDER BY slot_name", + "order must be deterministic -- the monitor compares the joined names against the live GUC as a string") }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@server/internal/monitor/instance_monitor.go`:
- Around line 180-184: In server/internal/monitor/instance_monitor.go lines
180-184, update the populateFromDbConn reconciliation call around
reconcileSynchronizedStandbySlots to log failures with zerolog and continue
instead of returning the error. In server/internal/monitor/instance_monitor.go
lines 219-234, update the version-resolution logic used by
reconcileSynchronizedStandbySlots to return nil when parsing fails or the major
version cannot be resolved, preserving fail-open behavior for unsupported Spock
versions.
- Around line 257-269: Update the synchronized_standby_slots handling around
PatchDynamicConfig and Reload to use Patroni’s restart flow for this
postmaster-level setting, verify pending_restart before relying on native
failover slots, and configure a bounded HTTP client instead of the nil client’s
unbounded default transport.
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In `@server/internal/postgres/create_db_test.go`:
- Around line 97-102: Update TestPhysicalReplicationSlotNames to assert that
postgres.PhysicalReplicationSlotNames().SQL contains the deterministic ORDER BY
slot_name clause, preserving the existing assertions for physical and
non-temporary slots.
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| client := patroni.NewClient(info.PatroniURL(), nil) | ||
| _, err = client.PatchDynamicConfig(ctx, &patroni.DynamicConfig{ | ||
| PostgreSQL: &patroni.DynamicPostgreSQLConfig{ | ||
| Parameters: utils.PointerTo(map[string]any{ | ||
| "synchronized_standby_slots": desired, | ||
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| if err != nil { | ||
| return fmt.Errorf("failed to patch synchronized_standby_slots to %q: %w", desired, err) | ||
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| if err := client.Reload(ctx); err != nil { | ||
| return fmt.Errorf("failed to reload after patching synchronized_standby_slots: %w", err) |
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- 4: https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/patroni/latest/patroni_configuration/
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In PostgreSQL 17, the synchronized_standby_slots configuration parameter is a postmaster-level parameter that cannot be changed via a reload (SIGHUP) [1][2]. According to the official PostgreSQL 17 documentation, this parameter can only be set in the postgresql.conf file or on the server command line [1][2]. Changes to this parameter require a server restart to take effect. The synchronized_standby_slots parameter is used to specify a comma-separated list of physical replication slot names that logical WAL sender processes must wait for before sending decoded changes to plugins [1][2]. This ensures that logical failover slots do not consume changes until those changes have been received and flushed to the specified physical standby servers, facilitating reliable logical replication failover [1][3].
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In `@server/internal/monitor/instance_monitor.go` around lines 257 - 269, Update
the synchronized_standby_slots handling around PatchDynamicConfig and Reload to
use Patroni’s restart flow for this postmaster-level setting, verify
pending_restart before relying on native failover slots, and configure a bounded
HTTP client instead of the nil client’s unbounded default transport.
| "max_replication_slots", | ||
| "wal_keep_segments", | ||
| "wal_keep_size", | ||
| // Reload-safe, kept identical across every instance in the node via |
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The values in dcsGUCs and dynamicGUCs come from here: https://patroni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/patroni_configuration.html#important-rules
sync_replication_slots isn't listed on that page, so it doesn't belong in this list, and we can just treat it like any other setting.
| // reconciliation (see server/internal/monitor/instance_monitor.go). | ||
| // Listed here purely so this file stays the one place documenting | ||
| // every GUC this codebase manages through Patroni's DCS, reload-safe. | ||
| "synchronized_standby_slots", |
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This setting is related to synchronous physical replicas. We currently support only asynchronous replicas, so we shouldn't set this parameter.
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Checked the actual docs and it turns out this isn't tied to synchronous replication at all, it works the same with async standbys. But there is a real catch worth knowing about. If a physical standby lags or drops, the primary just waits for it before sending changes to Spock peers, no timeout. And since a node can already span multiple hosts today, that's not a hypothetical, a slow or disconnected replica could stall a node's whole outbound replication.
So it's not exactly the sync replication issue you mentioned, but there is a real tradeoff here worth talking about before we lock t
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Thank you for the clarification. My other comment still applies here, though. This setting does not belong in this list. Setting this in the DCS means that it will be set to the same value on every instance in the node, which is not what we want. For example, say we have a node n1 with two instances: storefront-n1-689qacsi and storefront-n1-9ptayhma. When storefront-n1-689qacsi is the primary, it will have a physical replication slot called storefront_n1_9ptayhma. Likewise, when storefront-n1-9ptayhma is the primary, it will have a replication slot called storefront_n1_689qacsi. So, we want to configure this setting as follows:
- On
storefront-n1-689qacsi,synchronized_standby_slotsshould bestorefront_n1_9ptayhma - On
storefront-n1-9ptayhma,synchronized_standby_slotsshould bestorefront_n1_689qacsi
I left a suggestion in our other conversation above about how to think about implementing this.
| // since the reconciliation is self-correcting on every poll (see | ||
| // its own doc comment), nothing is lost by retrying next tick | ||
| // instead of surfacing this as an instance-level error now. | ||
| if err := m.reconcileSynchronizedStandbySlots(ctx, conn, info, pgVersion, spockVersion); err != nil { |
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Why is this necessary? As I mentioned in another comment, we don't support synchronous replicas right now, so I don't think we should set synchronized_standby_slots.
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Same answer as the other thread, this is what makes a failover slot safe to use after a promotion. Without it, a promoted standby has no guarantee it got the WAL a failover enabled slot needed.
One thing worth flagging though, if a physical standby lags or drops, the primary waits for it with no timeout, and nodes can already span multiple hosts today, so that's a real risk. Mechanism's doing what it's supposed to, just introduces a new way a slow replica could stall replication. Happy to keep it or talk through bounding it if that's a concern.
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Thank you for the clarification. I was confused because the wording in the Postgres docs is very similar to synchronous replication, but I see the distinction now. You're right that this setting carries a risk, similar to the risk with synchronous replicas. But I also see that it's listed in the Spock documentation, and they're the experts on this.
That said, I'd like to try to set this parameter in a more standard way and not overload this instance monitor. I don't think this needs to be dynamic, because topology changes (adding or removing replicas) will always flow through our database update process. Additionally, from some quick testing, it looks like:
- Patroni's physical replication slots have predictable names
- Their slot name function is here: https://github.com/patroni/patroni/blob/1150a18cbd66303ecbea439ead8e2a5c221883f1/patroni/dcs/__init__.py#L36-L55
- Our member names are just the instance ID, so for example, instance
storefront-n1-9ptayhmawould map to slot namestorefront_n1_9ptayhma - It's safe to consider this naming scheme as stable. Their implementation has been stable for at least 8 years, and modifying it would be a breaking change.
synchronized_standby_slotsis ignored on replicas
Given all that, we can incorporate this into our normal configuration process. I suggest adding a PeerInstanceIDs string[] property to database.InstanceSpec that gets populated in database.Spec.NodeInstances() (make sure it's included in database.InstanceSpec.Clone() as well). Then you can propagate that setting into common.PatroniConfigGenerator. Then you can compute synchronized_standby_slots from those peer instance IDs. You have options for where that computation happens. It could make sense to do it in DefaultGUCs since it's already deciding on sync_replication_slots, but regardless, I think that's the right general direction.
| // different primary. That value is instead computed from live replication | ||
| // state and kept in sync at runtime — see | ||
| // server/internal/monitor/instance_monitor.go. | ||
| func NativeFailoverSlotGUCs(version *ds.PgEdgeVersion) map[string]any { |
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DefaultGUCs in this file already takes the pgEdge version and has similar logic for output_plugin_libraries. Is there a reason to add this new function rather than just incorporating this logic into DefaultGUCs?
Implements PG17+'s native logical-slot-failover mechanism for Spock 6 clusters, fully gated so Spock 5.x deployments see zero behavior change: - postgres.NeedsNativeFailoverSlots gates all of the below behind Spock major >= 6 && Postgres major >= 17. - CreateReplicationSlot takes a failover bool; the SQL is byte-identical to before when false. - NativeFailoverSlotGUCs sets sync_replication_slots = on as a static, spec-known default via PatroniConfigGenerator. - InstanceMonitor.reconcileSynchronizedStandbySlots keeps synchronized_standby_slots in sync with each node's actual live physical standby slots, on the primary only. Self-correcting on every 5s poll rather than cached, so a partial failure (DCS patch succeeds, reload doesn't) retries on the next tick instead of getting stuck. Temporary slots are excluded, since they vanish with their creating session and were never meant to be depended on. synchronized_standby_slots' maintenance is Control-Plane-side monitoring rather than a Patroni on_role_change callback: the live-GUC-push mechanism and role-polling this needs already exist in this codebase, while a callback would need new script-delivery and auth plumbing into the Postgres/Patroni container with no existing precedent. Full comparison in ADR-0003 (internal-design-docs). Verified live end to end, including two independent real Patroni failovers on separate hosts with roles reversed between runs: synchronized_standby_slots was already correct for the new primary by the time each failover task completed, and replication continued in both directions through the transition. PLAT-719
reconcileSynchronizedStandbySlots errors were propagating all the way out of populateFromDbConn, so a transient Patroni REST hiccup (most likely to happen right after a failover, exactly when this reconciliation has real work to do) would report an otherwise healthy primary as errored and discard the version/subscription data the same pass had already collected. Since the reconciliation is self-correcting on every 5s poll, nothing is lost by logging and retrying instead of surfacing it as an instance-level error. Also: - Fail open (return nil) on an unparseable version string, matching needsOutputPluginLibraries/nativeFailoverSlotMajors' existing convention of treating an unresolvable version as "not eligible" rather than an error. Unreachable in practice today, since the version strings here always come from a live, successful query. - Bound the Patroni PatchDynamicConfig/Reload calls with their own 10s timeout. patroni.NewClient's default http.Client has no request timeout of its own, so a stalled connection during a Patroni election could otherwise block this instance's status collection indefinitely. Verified live against a real Patroni failover (Lima fixture, two separate hosts): confirmed instance health stayed available/no-error on both instances throughout the transition, and re-ran every other PLAT-719 scenario from scratch with these changes applied with no regressions. PLAT-719
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| // since the reconciliation is self-correcting on every poll (see | ||
| // its own doc comment), nothing is lost by retrying next tick | ||
| // instead of surfacing this as an instance-level error now. | ||
| if err := m.reconcileSynchronizedStandbySlots(ctx, conn, info, pgVersion, spockVersion); err != nil { |
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Thank you for the clarification. I was confused because the wording in the Postgres docs is very similar to synchronous replication, but I see the distinction now. You're right that this setting carries a risk, similar to the risk with synchronous replicas. But I also see that it's listed in the Spock documentation, and they're the experts on this.
That said, I'd like to try to set this parameter in a more standard way and not overload this instance monitor. I don't think this needs to be dynamic, because topology changes (adding or removing replicas) will always flow through our database update process. Additionally, from some quick testing, it looks like:
- Patroni's physical replication slots have predictable names
- Their slot name function is here: https://github.com/patroni/patroni/blob/1150a18cbd66303ecbea439ead8e2a5c221883f1/patroni/dcs/__init__.py#L36-L55
- Our member names are just the instance ID, so for example, instance
storefront-n1-9ptayhmawould map to slot namestorefront_n1_9ptayhma - It's safe to consider this naming scheme as stable. Their implementation has been stable for at least 8 years, and modifying it would be a breaking change.
synchronized_standby_slotsis ignored on replicas
Given all that, we can incorporate this into our normal configuration process. I suggest adding a PeerInstanceIDs string[] property to database.InstanceSpec that gets populated in database.Spec.NodeInstances() (make sure it's included in database.InstanceSpec.Clone() as well). Then you can propagate that setting into common.PatroniConfigGenerator. Then you can compute synchronized_standby_slots from those peer instance IDs. You have options for where that computation happens. It could make sense to do it in DefaultGUCs since it's already deciding on sync_replication_slots, but regardless, I think that's the right general direction.
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Thank you for the clarification. My other comment still applies here, though. This setting does not belong in this list. Setting this in the DCS means that it will be set to the same value on every instance in the node, which is not what we want. For example, say we have a node n1 with two instances: storefront-n1-689qacsi and storefront-n1-9ptayhma. When storefront-n1-689qacsi is the primary, it will have a physical replication slot called storefront_n1_9ptayhma. Likewise, when storefront-n1-9ptayhma is the primary, it will have a replication slot called storefront_n1_689qacsi. So, we want to configure this setting as follows:
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storefront-n1-689qacsi,synchronized_standby_slotsshould bestorefront_n1_9ptayhma - On
storefront-n1-9ptayhma,synchronized_standby_slotsshould bestorefront_n1_689qacsi
I left a suggestion in our other conversation above about how to think about implementing this.
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I think you'll remove this function after making the other changes I suggested, but I want to point out that we should avoid these types of comments. This comment is very long and describes code and behavior that aren't adjacent to it. If we decide to use this function for a different purpose, or if we change the behavior it describes, the comment would mislead future readers. Also, in this case, the function is well-named and easy to read and understand, so I wouldn't add a comment to this type of function unless this were a publicly consumed library.
As a rule of thumb, I think it's best to avoid long, multi-paragraph comments unless the code it describes is very tricky. Otherwise, they add a maintenance burden and potential issues that a compiler can't catch. If you need to describe behavior once to a reviewer, you can always leave comments on your PR after you open it.
Could you please double-check the other long comments in this PR and make sure they're really necessary?
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Summary
This adds the native failover slot support Spock 6 needs on Postgres 17 and up.
Changes
postgres.NeedsNativeFailoverSlots, that only turns any of this on when the database is running Spock 6 or newer and Postgres 17 or newer. Everything else in this PR sits behind that one check.CreateReplicationSlotnow accepts afailoverflag. When that flag is off, the SQL it produces is exactly what it was before this change, so there is nothing new for clusters that don't qualify.NativeFailoverSlotGUCs, which turns onsync_replication_slotsas part of the normal Patroni config generation once a database crosses that gate.reconcileSynchronizedStandbySlots, that keeps thesynchronized_standby_slotssetting pointed at whatever physical standby slots actually exist on the current primary. It checks and recomputes this fresh every five seconds instead of remembering a cached value, so if something only half succeeds (say the config gets patched but the reload doesn't happen), it just corrects itself on the next check rather than getting stuck. It also skips temporary slots on purpose, since those disappear the moment the session that made them ends and were never something worth pointing this setting at.Testing
CreateReplicationSlotproduces with the flag on and off, and the temporary slot exclusion.synchronized_standby_slotswas already correct on the new primary by the time the failover finished, no extra nudge needed. Wrote data before the failover and after it and confirmed it made it to both sides either way.Checklist