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fix(store-client): keep the PostgreSQL LISTEN connection drained and poll until caught up - #2275
Fixes#2171. It builds on #2265, which is merged now.
The LISTEN loop handled every notification itself. It fetched the row, polled, and then waited until the consumer took each event before it read the next notification. So when fault-quarantine fell behind in a flood the loop stopped reading, lib/pq's buffers filled up, and the backend sat in ClientWrite inside the transaction PostgreSQL holds open while it sends notifications. That backend_xmin then held back VACUUM and CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY for as long as the consumer stayed behind.
handleNotification now just records the notified id and wakes a fetch loop that runs next to the LISTEN loop, so the connection keeps being read whatever the consumer does. The fetch loop does the work the LISTEN loop used to do. After every poll it looks up the rows notified so far in one query, which only returns rows at or behind the read position, so a row that committed after the read position had already passed it is still delivered once without moving the position back, which is what #1469 was for. A notified row past the position is left to the polls, which read it in order, so a lookup never moves the position over a row nobody has read. Up to 1000 ids wait between two lookups.
The poll was the other half. It reads 100 rows and nothing polled again after a full batch, and in hybrid mode nothing polled at startup either, so a restart behind a backlog waited 30 s and then got one batch every 5 s. The fetch loop now polls as soon as it starts, looks up what was notified after each poll, and keeps going until a poll leaves the read position where it was. A full batch from the fallback poller wakes it too, but only once that batch has actually moved the position. Reads hold a lock from the query to their last delivery, so the fallback poller and the fetch loop never hand the consumer the same rows. And since a lookup never moves the position, a notification for a new row can't move it past older rows nobody has read, which is how a restart behind 250 rows used to lose all 250.
This needed #2265, which is merged now. With this change the watcher reads the changelog in (changed_at, id) order far more than main did, and without #2265 it walked straight into #2264 during a big flood, stuck at 3,651 of a 150,000 event flood in my runs, where main mostly got past the out of order row because every notification moved the position by id. With #2265 underneath it delivers everything with no duplicates. #2250 is merged and in here too.
Nothing changes in the schema, the resume token, Helm values, metrics or interfaces, and MarkProcessed saves the same position it does today, so restarts behave like they do now. I read ADR-054 and ADR-068. Every catch up still ends with an empty poll, which is what records the caught up time for the lag metric, and late rows still come from their NOTIFY. A lookup only reads rows at or behind the read position, so it never counts a row as read for the lag metric before a poll delivers it.
A watcher with a server-side filter only moves its position on the rows a poll returns, and on main the lookups kept such a watcher near the newest row, since a notified row past the position moved it even when the watcher then filtered the row out. With the lookups bounded, health-events-analyzer's position stayed at its last match and every poll scanned every row since. So the fetch loop now reads the newest row before it polls a watcher with a server-side filter and moves up to it after a short batch, but only while notifications are arriving, since a row that commits later behind the new position comes from its NOTIFY. Polling mode and the fallback poller never move.
If fault-quarantine is still slower than you'd expect after this, the next thing I would look at is the UPDATE in MarkProcessed, which scans the unprocessed backlog on every acknowledgement. I've left that alone here.
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✨ New feature
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📚 Documentation
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The unit tests use sqlmock and live in a new changestream_listen_test.go. TestListenLoop_StalledConsumer_KeepsReadingNotifications, TestListenLoop_Startup_ReadsBacklogWithoutWaiting and TestListenLoop_NotifiedRowPastBacklog_DoesNotSkipBacklog run the real listenLoop against a LISTEN connection the test feeds, and all three fail on main. There the first one stops reading notifications, the second gets 0 of 150 rows and the third gets 1 of 151. The others check that a full batch wakes the fetch loop only when it moved the position, that a second read waits while another one is delivering, what handleNotification records and when it wakes the loop, that a lookup is one query that only delivers rows at or behind the read position, that a pass still delivering when Close lands starts no other lookup, that a late row notified during a long catch-up still arrives, and that rows whose ids don't follow changed_at each arrive once. A table test pins where the move to the newest row happens and where it doesn't, and a loop test checks polling mode never moves. TestListenLoop_LateNotifiedRow_IsDeliveredOnce went in first and passes before and after. The three existing handleNotification tests now run the lookup after the notification. Each commit builds and passes the package tests on its own.
I also ran a scratch harness that isn't committed against PostgreSQL 16.15 in Docker. It drives the real watcher, built the way fault-quarantine gets it and behind the real adapter, on the provider's own schema, and inserts through InsertManyIdempotent so every event sends its own NOTIFY. The consumer acknowledges every event. The flood ran inside the database container over loopback, because Docker Desktop's port proxy buffers without limit and hides the wedge. Two 5,000 row backlogs were used, one written by a single writer so ids follow changed_at, and one with an insert held 150 ms inside its statement so its row lands 382 positions out of order, which is what the GIN pending list flush does under load.
150,000 events from 16 writers, consumer spends 20 ms per event, hybrid
backend in ClientWrite with backend_xmin pinned from 10 s on and still pinned 120 s after the consumer sped up; VACUUM's cutoff held at that xmin; CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY waiting for old snapshots until lock_timeout
backend in ClientRead every second with no backend_xmin; VACUUM cutoff 6 XIDs old; CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY done in 3 s; stuck at 3,651 rows on #2264
backend, VACUUM and index the same as alone; 25,968 delivered by the end, no duplicates
5,000 row backlog, hybrid
first row after 30.1 s, all 5,000 after 275.4 s
all 5,000 in 11.2 s
all 5,000 in 10.0 s
Same backlog, polling
14.6 s
10.4 s
10.9 s
5,000 row backlog with a row 382 positions out of order, hybrid
stuck at 2,600, 5,300 duplicates in 420 s
stuck at 2,600, 8,100 duplicates
all 5,000 in 18 s, no duplicates
151 rows, row 151 has the earliest changed_at, hybrid, 50 s
101 of 151, 299 duplicates
101 of 151, 599 duplicates
151 of 151, no duplicates
Restart behind 250 rows with one live NOTIFY, hybrid
1 of 251
251 of 251
251 of 251
Restart after acknowledging 5 of 106
0 of 101 delivered again
same as main
same as main
A row that commits after 51 later rows were read, hybrid
delivered once
delivered once
delivered once
5,000 event live flood with an insert held 150 ms, hybrid
all 5,000 in 12 s, 1 duplicate
stuck at 2,601, 2,702 duplicates, 2,399 never delivered
all 5,000 in 13 s, no duplicates
After the review I added a scenario the table doesn't have. 20,000 events paced at 1,000 a second, faster than the acknowledging consumer, with one row that commits once the read position is 1 s past it. Before the review commits the row was never delivered, 3 runs of 3, and with them it comes once, 3 of 3. Every other scenario above delivers the same rows once with the review commits as without them. With the move to the newest row, the analyzer's watcher behind 50,000 healthy rows at 20 events a second spent 8% of a 30 s window in polls instead of 92%, in hybrid mode, and the row that commits late behind the moved position still came once from its NOTIFY.
These are the commands I ran on macOS, from store-client unless noted.
go test -race -count=3 ./pkg/datastore/providers/postgresql/ ./pkg/client/ passes.
make -C store-client lint-test with golangci-lint v2.15.0, the version .versions.yaml pins, passes.
make license-headers-lint and make gomod-lint from the repository root pass. The dead-code-lint script needs bash 4, so I ran its two checks directly, deadcode across every module and golangci-lint unused with test files on store-client, and both report nothing.
make lint-test-all doesn't complete on this Mac because its first step, protos-lint, deletes the generated protobuf files before it calls protoc, which isn't installed here. CI on Linux is the authoritative run.
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Bug Fixes
Improved PostgreSQL change-stream reliability when event delivery is slow or notifications arrive out of order.
Change streams catch up on missed rows and continue reading large backlogs without skipping earlier changes.
Prevented duplicate event delivery and backward movement of the read position during overlapping reads.
Improved recovery from temporary read failures, including failed lookups of notified rows.
Pending reads stop when a change stream is closed or cancelled.
Add a helper that runs listenLoop on a LISTEN connection the test feeds,
and a test that a late NOTIFY row is delivered once without moving the
read position back, while a NOTIFY for a row that was just read is not
fetched again. That is the guarantee from NVIDIA#1469, pinned here before the
loop changes.
Signed-off-by: Saibernard Yogendran <bernie97@seas.upenn.edu>
…e consumer
listenLoop handled each NOTIFY in place. It fetched the row, polled, and
then waited until the consumer took every event. While a slow consumer
worked through a flood the loop stopped reading, lib/pq's buffers filled,
and the backend blocked in ClientWrite inside a transaction, so its
snapshot held back VACUUM and CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY for as long as
the consumer stayed behind.
handleNotification now only records the notified id and wakes a fetch
loop that runs next to the LISTEN loop. The fetch loop fetches the
notified rows by id in the order they arrived and then polls, as the
LISTEN loop did, so a late row is still delivered without moving the read
position back. It keeps at most 1000 ids between passes. When it has to
drop some, that pass only delivers rows at or behind the read position
and leaves the rest to the polls, because moving the position forward
could step over a dropped row.
Signed-off-by: Saibernard Yogendran <bernie97@seas.upenn.edu>
The fallback poller and the fetch loop both read the changelog. Two reads
that start from the same position get the same rows back and both deliver
them, so a read that started while another one was still delivering gave
the consumer those rows twice. A read now holds a lock from its query to
its last delivery, and a read that waited starts where the previous one
stopped. The lookup of notified rows holds it from taking the ids to its
last delivery, and a read that was waiting when the watcher closed does
not start.
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A poll reads at most 100 rows, and nothing polled again after a full
batch. In hybrid mode nothing polled at startup either. The fallback
poller waits 30 s and then reads one batch every 5 s while notifications
are quiet, so a consumer that restarted behind a backlog drained it at
about 1,200 rows a minute at best. And a notification for a new row could
move the read position past older rows that nobody had read yet, so they
were never delivered.
The fetch loop now catches up as soon as it starts and before every
lookup of notified rows. It polls until a poll leaves the read position
where it was, so a full batch is followed by the next poll right away,
and rows are read in order before a notified row can move the position.
The lookup ends with another catch up. A full batch from any poll,
including the fallback poller's, wakes the fetch loop to read the rest
once it is delivered, unless it left the read position where it was.
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The PostgreSQL change stream now handles LISTEN notifications separately from changelog reads. It tracks notified IDs in a bounded queue and uses a fetch loop to poll ordered batches, fetch notified rows, and retry failed passes.
Changes: PostgreSQL change-stream processing
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Summary
Notification queue and listener store-client/pkg/datastore/providers/postgresql/changestream.go, store-client/pkg/datastore/providers/postgresql/changestream_listen_test.go
The LISTEN loop records matching IDs in a bounded queue and wakes the fetch loop. Tests cover notification recording, queue overflow, and continued notification reading when event delivery is stalled.
Changelog catch-up and delivery store-client/pkg/datastore/providers/postgresql/changestream.go, store-client/pkg/datastore/providers/postgresql/changestream_listen_test.go, store-client/pkg/datastore/providers/postgresql/changestream_resume_token_test.go
The fetch loop serializes reads, polls ordered batches, fetches queued IDs, and retries failed passes. Late-row handling does not move the read position backward. Tests cover backlog ordering, batch wakeups, overlapping reads, retries, and shutdown.
Closing a watcher during event delivery can panic. Synchronize shutdown with the fetch loop before merging.
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[#2171] The PR implements the required LISTEN drain and catch-up behavior. handleNotification records IDs without querying or waiting for the consumer. A separate fetch loop polls at startup and con…
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The title clearly and concisely describes the main changes: draining the PostgreSQL LISTEN connection and polling until the change stream catches up.
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The changes stay within [#2171]. Production changes keep the PostgreSQL LISTEN connection drained, poll until caught up, bound pending notification IDs, serialize changelog reads, and avoid duplicate …
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The changes stay within [#2171]. Production changes keep the PostgreSQL LISTEN connection drained, poll until caught up, bound pending notification IDs, serialize changelog reads, and avoid duplicate delivery. The added tests verify these behaviors and retry and shutdown paths. The resume-token test updates model the new fetch step. No unrelated production component or interface change is shown.
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[#2171] The PR implements the required LISTEN drain and catch-up behavior. handleNotification records IDs without querying or waiting for the consumer. A separate fetch loop polls at startup and continues after full batches. fetchMu prevents duplicate delivery from concurrent reads. Tests cover stalled consumers, startup backlog, notification ordering, and full-batch wakeups. The reviewed head still does not satisfy the backlog-drain requirement for out-of-order changelog rows. The PR reports that its own head stops at 2,600 of 5,000 rows in one out-of-order backlog, stops at 2,601 of 5,000 in a live flood, and produces duplicates. The required fix is reported as being in #2265, but that change is not in this reviewed head.
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- Around line 710-724: Update the retry loop around `catchUp` and
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…or the next notification
When a pass of the fetch loop failed, the loop waited until something
woke it again. A late row sits behind the read position, so only the
lookup of its notified id delivers it, and on a quiet table that could
wait for an unrelated notification. The old inline path fetched the row
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and when the loop returns, and a pass that failed because the context
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- Line 733: Update fetchNotifiedRowsByID so a non-cancellation lookup failure
returns the lookup error to fetchLoop and restores the failed ID and all
not-yet-looked-up IDs to both the pending list and unread set. Preserve the
dropped count for the next pass without resetting it, and continue counting IDs
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When the lookup of a notified row failed, the id had already been taken
off the pending list, so the row was logged and lost. A late row sits
behind the read position and no poll returns it, so that lookup was the
only way to deliver it. The inline fetch on main lost it the same way.
A failed lookup now puts that id and the ones after it back in front of
the ids notified since, keeps the dropped count so the retry still only
delivers rows behind the position, and returns the error so the fetch
loop runs the pass again. An id notified again meanwhile is listed once.
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Close closes the events channel without waiting for the fetch loop, and
the loop can still start a pass when a wake or the retry timer is ready
at the same time as the stop. fetchNewChanges already returns at once
in that case, but the notified id lookups did not, so a pass after
Close could look a row up and try to deliver it on the closed channel.
fetchNotifiedRowsByID now returns before taking any id when the watcher
is closed, the same way fetchNewChanges does. The ids stay pending.
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Major · Recover late rows that the full notification queue drops. · changestream.go:639-682
store-client/pkg/datastore/providers/postgresql/changestream.go:639-682 Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Recover late rows that the full notification queue drops.
When addNotifiedID finds the pending list full, it keeps only a count. The dropped id is discarded. A row whose id is dropped and that sits behind the read position has no delivery path:
Polls read only rows after the read position. fetchNewChanges filters with (changed_at, id) > ($2, $3).
The id lookup in fetchNotifiedRowsByID uses only ids stored in notifiedIDs. A dropped id is not stored.
No other code path reads rows behind the position. A late row can therefore stay undelivered for the life of the watcher. The overflow case is logged as a warning and nothing else.
This can occur when more than 1,000 notifications arrive during one fetch pass. A pass runs one lookup per id, and the fetch loop can block on the event channel while notifications keep arriving.
Add a recovery step for dropped ids. The current tests check only the drop count, not delivery of the dropped row.
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639 - 682:
Update the overflow handling in addNotifiedID and the fetch flow using
takeNotifiedIDs so dropped notifications can still lead to delivery of their
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- Around line 639-682: Update the overflow handling in addNotifiedID and the
fetch flow using takeNotifiedIDs so dropped notifications can still lead to
delivery of their rows, including rows behind the read position. Establish a
recovery mechanism that can rediscover those rows without removing the queue
bound or changing the existing read-position and ordering safeguards.
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handleNotification checked whether a row had been read and then added
its id under a separate lock, and skipped the check altogether for ids
above the read position. A poll that read the row in between left the
id listed as unread, so the next pass looked it up and delivered the
row a second time. Paced floods against a real database showed up to
five duplicates in 5,000 rows.
addNotifiedID now checks the read set under the same lock the read is
recorded with, so a row a poll has just delivered is not looked up by
its notification.
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@lalitadithya could you kick off CI on this one when you get a chance? Three more commits went in today, for the two CodeRabbit points and a duplicate I found while testing it.
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handleNotification asked hasRecentlySeenEventID whether a notified row
had been read before it called addNotifiedID. That call pruned the read
set on every NOTIFY, walking up to 10,000 ids while it held the
watcher's lock on the goroutine that reads the LISTEN connection.
addNotifiedID already leaves out a row that was read, under the lock the
read is recorded with, so handleNotification now calls it directly and
hasRecentlySeenEventID goes. The read set is still pruned every time a
read is recorded.
addNotifiedID also woke the fetch loop for every id, including one it
left out. It now wakes the loop only when it records the id. A row that
was read needs no pass, and an id that is dropped or already waiting
arrives while ids wait, so the pass that takes them is already due.
Since main was merged, handleNotification returned early for a read row
above the read position, and the table case that expected a wake for
it failed. That case and the full list case now expect no wake.
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TestHandleNotification_ReadRowAboveCursorID_IsSkipped only called
handleNotification, which records the id and no longer queries
anything, so it would still pass if the read row were listed and looked
up again by the next pass. It now runs the lookup as well, and sqlmock
fails the query for row 151 it is not told to expect.
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…rom a lookup
A notified row past the read position was delivered by its lookup and
moved the position forward to it, unless ids had been dropped since the
last pass. The jump could step over a row that committed meanwhile and
that no read had returned. That row's NOTIFY then came in a later pass,
and if the list was full by then, its id was dropped and nothing ever
delivered the row.
Every lookup now delivers only a row at or behind the position. A row
past it is left to the catch-up after the lookup, which reads it in
order and cannot step over anything. The lookup that delivered rows past
the position goes, and with it the switch between the two lookups.
Dropped ids are still counted and logged.
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A pass looked every notified id up with its own query, one after
another, so a single pass could run up to 1000 queries. Close was only
checked before the first of them. A pass that was still delivering when
Close landed went on looking ids up, and could send a row it found on
the closed events channel.
The lookup is now one query for all the ids, and it returns the rows in
the order the poll reads them. It reads only rows at or behind the read
position. The bound is the poll's own comparison turned around, so a row
past the position is neither read a second time nor counted as read for
the lag metric before the poll delivers it. Close is checked before the
query, so no lookup starts after Close. When the query fails, all of its
ids stay pending for the retry.
Signed-off-by: Saibernard Yogendran <bernie97@seas.upenn.edu>
…ch-up
The fetch loop looked the notified ids up only once a catch-up had
stopped moving the read position. In a long catch-up the list of ids
filled up while the polls worked through the backlog, every id after
the first notifiedIDLimit was dropped, and a late row notified meanwhile
was lost for good, since only its lookup delivers it.
A pass now polls, looks up the ids notified so far, which empties the
list, and repeats until a poll leaves the position where it was. The
list only has to hold what is notified during one poll. A lookup never
moves the position, so one between two polls cannot step over a row
the polls have yet to read, and each poll and each lookup is still one
read under fetchMu.
Signed-off-by: Saibernard Yogendran <bernie97@seas.upenn.edu>
…ow changed_at
The listen loop tests used rows whose changed_at grows with the id, so
none of them covered what the fetch loop has to get right when a writer
that started first gets its changelog id last. The poll then reads a
row with a high id before rows with lower ones, and the read position
ends below an id already read.
The new test runs the loop on such rows. A NOTIFY for a row the poll
has read is not looked up, whatever its id. A late row whose id is
above the position's but whose changed_at is behind it is looked up
with the position the poll left, delivered once, and does not move the
position back.
Signed-off-by: Saibernard Yogendran <bernie97@seas.upenn.edu>
…e fetch loop
A watcher whose pipeline becomes a server-side SQL filter only moves its
read position on the rows a poll returns. On main the lookup of a
notified row applied no SQL filter, so it moved the position to that
row before the watcher filtered the row out, and a watcher whose filter
rarely matches, such as health-events-analyzer's, stayed near the
newest row. Now that a lookup only delivers rows at or behind the
position, such a watcher stays at its last match, and every poll scans
every row since.
Before a poll of a filtered watcher, the fetch loop now reads the
newest row of the table in its own statement. When the poll returns
fewer rows than a full batch, it has every row it could see past the
position that the filter accepts, so the position moves up to that
newest row, never back. A row the filter accepts that was still in an
open transaction is then behind the position, and only the lookup of
its notified id can deliver it.
So only the fetch loop moves, which runs next to the LISTEN loop and
looks the notified ids up after every poll, and only while NOTIFY is
live, that is within 30 seconds of the last notification or of the
LISTEN connection starting.
pollForChanges, in polling mode or in hybrid mode without a LISTEN
connection, and the fallback poller, which polls once NOTIFY has gone
silent, have no lookup behind them. They never move, and their next
poll still reads such a row.
Signed-off-by: Saibernard Yogendran <bernie97@seas.upenn.edu>
The seen check is gone, handleNotification just records the id now. A catch-up pass polls, then looks up whatever was notified in one query that only returns rows at or behind the read position, and keeps going until a poll stops moving the position. The stop check runs right before each lookup. The three test changes are in as well.
Two things I want to flag. Once the lookups stopped reaching past the position, a watcher whose filter rarely matches, like health-events-analyzer's, got stuck at its last match and every poll scanned everything after it. So there's one more commit that moves it up to the newest row after a short batch, but only while notifications are coming in, and never in polling mode where nothing would deliver the skipped row.
The other is the Close race. A read that's already running when Close lands can still hit the closed channel, same as main today. Fixing it properly means Close waiting for the loops, so I'm planning to do that in its own PR unless you want it in here.
Please note that the "Total", "Covered", and "Missed" counts above refer to code statements instead of lines of code. The value in brackets refers to the test coverage of that file in the old version of the code.
The seen check is gone, handleNotification just records the id now. A catch-up pass polls, then looks up whatever was notified in one query that only returns rows at or behind the read position, and keeps going until a poll stops moving the position. The stop check runs right before each lookup. The three test changes are in as well.
Two things I want to flag. Once the lookups stopped reaching past the position, a watcher whose filter rarely matches, like health-events-analyzer's, got stuck at its last match and every poll scanned everything after it. So there's one more commit that moves it up to the newest row after a short batch, but only while notifications are coming in, and never in polling mode where nothing would deliver the skipped row.
The other is the Close race. A read that's already running when Close lands can still hit the closed channel, same as main today. Fixing it properly means Close waiting for the loops, so I'm planning to do that in its own PR unless you want it in here.
Thanks, a separate PR for the close race sounds good to me
…ids are dropped
Moving a filtered watcher up to the newest row steps over rows that were
not committed when the poll started, and such a row is only delivered by
the lookup of its notified id. When the list of notified ids is full, or
ids were already dropped since the last lookup, that id can be one of the
dropped ones, and the row would never be delivered.
The move is skipped then, so the position stays where the poll left it
and the next poll reads such a row.
Signed-off-by: Saibernard Yogendran <bernie97@seas.upenn.edu>
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Summary
Fixes #2171. It builds on #2265, which is merged now.
The LISTEN loop handled every notification itself. It fetched the row, polled, and then waited until the consumer took each event before it read the next notification. So when fault-quarantine fell behind in a flood the loop stopped reading, lib/pq's buffers filled up, and the backend sat in ClientWrite inside the transaction PostgreSQL holds open while it sends notifications. That backend_xmin then held back VACUUM and CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY for as long as the consumer stayed behind.
handleNotification now just records the notified id and wakes a fetch loop that runs next to the LISTEN loop, so the connection keeps being read whatever the consumer does. The fetch loop does the work the LISTEN loop used to do. After every poll it looks up the rows notified so far in one query, which only returns rows at or behind the read position, so a row that committed after the read position had already passed it is still delivered once without moving the position back, which is what #1469 was for. A notified row past the position is left to the polls, which read it in order, so a lookup never moves the position over a row nobody has read. Up to 1000 ids wait between two lookups.
The poll was the other half. It reads 100 rows and nothing polled again after a full batch, and in hybrid mode nothing polled at startup either, so a restart behind a backlog waited 30 s and then got one batch every 5 s. The fetch loop now polls as soon as it starts, looks up what was notified after each poll, and keeps going until a poll leaves the read position where it was. A full batch from the fallback poller wakes it too, but only once that batch has actually moved the position. Reads hold a lock from the query to their last delivery, so the fallback poller and the fetch loop never hand the consumer the same rows. And since a lookup never moves the position, a notification for a new row can't move it past older rows nobody has read, which is how a restart behind 250 rows used to lose all 250.
This needed #2265, which is merged now. With this change the watcher reads the changelog in (changed_at, id) order far more than main did, and without #2265 it walked straight into #2264 during a big flood, stuck at 3,651 of a 150,000 event flood in my runs, where main mostly got past the out of order row because every notification moved the position by id. With #2265 underneath it delivers everything with no duplicates. #2250 is merged and in here too.
Nothing changes in the schema, the resume token, Helm values, metrics or interfaces, and MarkProcessed saves the same position it does today, so restarts behave like they do now. I read ADR-054 and ADR-068. Every catch up still ends with an empty poll, which is what records the caught up time for the lag metric, and late rows still come from their NOTIFY. A lookup only reads rows at or behind the read position, so it never counts a row as read for the lag metric before a poll delivers it.
A watcher with a server-side filter only moves its position on the rows a poll returns, and on main the lookups kept such a watcher near the newest row, since a notified row past the position moved it even when the watcher then filtered the row out. With the lookups bounded, health-events-analyzer's position stayed at its last match and every poll scanned every row since. So the fetch loop now reads the newest row before it polls a watcher with a server-side filter and moves up to it after a short batch, but only while notifications are arriving, since a row that commits later behind the new position comes from its NOTIFY. Polling mode and the fallback poller never move.
If fault-quarantine is still slower than you'd expect after this, the next thing I would look at is the UPDATE in MarkProcessed, which scans the unprocessed backlog on every acknowledgement. I've left that alone here.
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Testing
The unit tests use sqlmock and live in a new changestream_listen_test.go. TestListenLoop_StalledConsumer_KeepsReadingNotifications, TestListenLoop_Startup_ReadsBacklogWithoutWaiting and TestListenLoop_NotifiedRowPastBacklog_DoesNotSkipBacklog run the real listenLoop against a LISTEN connection the test feeds, and all three fail on main. There the first one stops reading notifications, the second gets 0 of 150 rows and the third gets 1 of 151. The others check that a full batch wakes the fetch loop only when it moved the position, that a second read waits while another one is delivering, what handleNotification records and when it wakes the loop, that a lookup is one query that only delivers rows at or behind the read position, that a pass still delivering when Close lands starts no other lookup, that a late row notified during a long catch-up still arrives, and that rows whose ids don't follow changed_at each arrive once. A table test pins where the move to the newest row happens and where it doesn't, and a loop test checks polling mode never moves. TestListenLoop_LateNotifiedRow_IsDeliveredOnce went in first and passes before and after. The three existing handleNotification tests now run the lookup after the notification. Each commit builds and passes the package tests on its own.
I also ran a scratch harness that isn't committed against PostgreSQL 16.15 in Docker. It drives the real watcher, built the way fault-quarantine gets it and behind the real adapter, on the provider's own schema, and inserts through InsertManyIdempotent so every event sends its own NOTIFY. The consumer acknowledges every event. The flood ran inside the database container over loopback, because Docker Desktop's port proxy buffers without limit and hides the wedge. Two 5,000 row backlogs were used, one written by a single writer so ids follow changed_at, and one with an insert held 150 ms inside its statement so its row lands 382 positions out of order, which is what the GIN pending list flush does under load.
After the review I added a scenario the table doesn't have. 20,000 events paced at 1,000 a second, faster than the acknowledging consumer, with one row that commits once the read position is 1 s past it. Before the review commits the row was never delivered, 3 runs of 3, and with them it comes once, 3 of 3. Every other scenario above delivers the same rows once with the review commits as without them. With the move to the newest row, the analyzer's watcher behind 50,000 healthy rows at 20 events a second spent 8% of a 30 s window in polls instead of 92%, in hybrid mode, and the row that commits late behind the moved position still came once from its NOTIFY.
These are the commands I ran on macOS, from store-client unless noted.
make lint-test-all doesn't complete on this Mac because its first step, protos-lint, deletes the generated protobuf files before it calls protoc, which isn't installed here. CI on Linux is the authoritative run.
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