Disallow negative values for max_retention_duration.

The subscription option max_retention_duration accepts an integer value
representing a timeout in milliseconds, where zero means unlimited
retention (no timeout).  Negative values have no useful meaning, but were
silently accepted and stored in the subscription catalog.

A negative value causes should_stop_conflict_info_retention() to always
return true, because TimestampDifferenceExceeds() treats a negative
threshold as already exceeded.  This stops dead tuple retention
immediately rather than honoring the configured timeout.

Fix by rejecting negative values for max_retention_duration during CREATE
SUBSCRIPTION and ALTER SUBSCRIPTION.

Author: Chao Li <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/987440b33a511482232c59a190cc16ae4feff9aa

Modified Files
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src/backend/commands/subscriptioncmds.c    | 5 +++++
src/test/regress/expected/subscription.out | 6 ++++++
src/test/regress/sql/subscription.sql      | 6 ++++++
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

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