From 4f8e82845a03015f5870933e7712fde5a10ebdfd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 05:44:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH v5 3/4] Track inactive replication slot information

Currently postgres doesn't track metrics like the time at which
the slot became inactive, and the total number of times the slot
became inactive in its lifetime. This commit adds two new metrics
last_inactive_at of type timestamptz and inactive_count of type numeric
to ReplicationSlotPersistentData. Whenever a slot becomes
inactive, the current timestamp and inactive count are persisted
to disk.

These metrics are useful in the following ways:
- To improve replication slot monitoring tools. For instance, one
can build a monitoring tool that signals a) when replication slots
is lying inactive for a day or so using last_inactive_at metric,
b) when a replication slot is becoming inactive too frequently
using last_inactive_at metric.

- To implement timeout-based inactive replication slot management
capability in postgres.

Increases SLOT_VERSION due to the added two new metrics.
---
 doc/src/sgml/system-views.sgml       | 20 +++++++++++++
 src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql |  4 ++-
 src/backend/replication/slot.c       | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/backend/replication/slotfuncs.c  | 15 +++++++++-
 src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat      |  6 ++--
 src/include/replication/slot.h       |  6 ++++
 src/test/regress/expected/rules.out  |  6 ++--
 7 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/system-views.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/system-views.sgml
index cce88c14bb..0dfd472b02 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/system-views.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/system-views.sgml
@@ -2771,6 +2771,26 @@ SELECT * FROM pg_locks pl LEFT JOIN pg_prepared_xacts ppx
        ID of role
       </para></entry>
      </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>last_inactive_at</structfield> <type>timestamptz</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        The time at which the slot became inactive.
+        <literal>NULL</literal> if the slot is currently actively being
+        used.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
+
+     <row>
+      <entry role="catalog_table_entry"><para role="column_definition">
+       <structfield>inactive_count</structfield> <type>numeric</type>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        The total number of times the slot became inactive in its lifetime.
+      </para></entry>
+     </row>
     </tbody>
    </tgroup>
   </table>
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
index c39f0d73d3..a5a78a9910 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/system_views.sql
@@ -1026,7 +1026,9 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_replication_slots AS
             L.conflict_reason,
             L.failover,
             L.synced,
-            L.invalidation_reason
+            L.invalidation_reason,
+            L.last_inactive_at,
+            L.inactive_count
     FROM pg_get_replication_slots() AS L
             LEFT JOIN pg_database D ON (L.datoid = D.oid);
 
diff --git a/src/backend/replication/slot.c b/src/backend/replication/slot.c
index 67d6bd849e..ce51c6d909 100644
--- a/src/backend/replication/slot.c
+++ b/src/backend/replication/slot.c
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ typedef struct ReplicationSlotOnDisk
 	sizeof(ReplicationSlotOnDisk) - ReplicationSlotOnDiskConstantSize
 
 #define SLOT_MAGIC		0x1051CA1	/* format identifier */
-#define SLOT_VERSION	5		/* version for new files */
+#define SLOT_VERSION	6		/* version for new files */
 
 /* Control array for replication slot management */
 ReplicationSlotCtlData *ReplicationSlotCtl = NULL;
@@ -346,6 +346,8 @@ ReplicationSlotCreate(const char *name, bool db_specific,
 	slot->data.two_phase_at = InvalidXLogRecPtr;
 	slot->data.failover = failover;
 	slot->data.synced = synced;
+	slot->data.last_inactive_at = 0;
+	slot->data.inactive_count = 0;
 
 	/* and then data only present in shared memory */
 	slot->just_dirtied = false;
@@ -572,6 +574,17 @@ retry:
 
 	if (am_walsender)
 	{
+		if (s->data.persistency == RS_PERSISTENT)
+		{
+			SpinLockAcquire(&s->mutex);
+			s->data.last_inactive_at = 0;
+			SpinLockRelease(&s->mutex);
+
+			/* Write this slot to disk */
+			ReplicationSlotMarkDirty();
+			ReplicationSlotSave();
+		}
+
 		ereport(log_replication_commands ? LOG : DEBUG1,
 				SlotIsLogical(s)
 				? errmsg("acquired logical replication slot \"%s\"",
@@ -639,16 +652,20 @@ ReplicationSlotRelease(void)
 		ConditionVariableBroadcast(&slot->active_cv);
 	}
 
-	MyReplicationSlot = NULL;
-
-	/* might not have been set when we've been a plain slot */
-	LWLockAcquire(ProcArrayLock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);
-	MyProc->statusFlags &= ~PROC_IN_LOGICAL_DECODING;
-	ProcGlobal->statusFlags[MyProc->pgxactoff] = MyProc->statusFlags;
-	LWLockRelease(ProcArrayLock);
-
 	if (am_walsender)
 	{
+		if (slot->data.persistency == RS_PERSISTENT)
+		{
+			SpinLockAcquire(&slot->mutex);
+			slot->data.last_inactive_at = GetCurrentTimestamp();
+			slot->data.inactive_count++;
+			SpinLockRelease(&slot->mutex);
+
+			/* Write this slot to disk */
+			ReplicationSlotMarkDirty();
+			ReplicationSlotSave();
+		}
+
 		ereport(log_replication_commands ? LOG : DEBUG1,
 				is_logical
 				? errmsg("released logical replication slot \"%s\"",
@@ -658,6 +675,14 @@ ReplicationSlotRelease(void)
 
 		pfree(slotname);
 	}
+
+	MyReplicationSlot = NULL;
+
+	/* might not have been set when we've been a plain slot */
+	LWLockAcquire(ProcArrayLock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);
+	MyProc->statusFlags &= ~PROC_IN_LOGICAL_DECODING;
+	ProcGlobal->statusFlags[MyProc->pgxactoff] = MyProc->statusFlags;
+	LWLockRelease(ProcArrayLock);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/src/backend/replication/slotfuncs.c b/src/backend/replication/slotfuncs.c
index 7c1145bb75..6a12db27fd 100644
--- a/src/backend/replication/slotfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/replication/slotfuncs.c
@@ -239,10 +239,11 @@ pg_drop_replication_slot(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 Datum
 pg_get_replication_slots(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 {
-#define PG_GET_REPLICATION_SLOTS_COLS 18
+#define PG_GET_REPLICATION_SLOTS_COLS 20
 	ReturnSetInfo *rsinfo = (ReturnSetInfo *) fcinfo->resultinfo;
 	XLogRecPtr	currlsn;
 	int			slotno;
+	char		buf[256];
 
 	/*
 	 * We don't require any special permission to see this function's data
@@ -464,6 +465,18 @@ pg_get_replication_slots(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 				break;
 		}
 
+		if (slot_contents.data.last_inactive_at > 0)
+			values[i++] = TimestampTzGetDatum(slot_contents.data.last_inactive_at);
+		else
+			nulls[i++] = true;
+
+		/* Convert to numeric. */
+		snprintf(buf, sizeof buf, UINT64_FORMAT, slot_contents.data.inactive_count);
+		values[i++] = DirectFunctionCall3(numeric_in,
+										  CStringGetDatum(buf),
+										  ObjectIdGetDatum(0),
+										  Int32GetDatum(-1));
+
 		Assert(i == PG_GET_REPLICATION_SLOTS_COLS);
 
 		tuplestore_putvalues(rsinfo->setResult, rsinfo->setDesc,
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
index a6bfc36426..3d4ace624e 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat
@@ -11127,9 +11127,9 @@
   proname => 'pg_get_replication_slots', prorows => '10', proisstrict => 'f',
   proretset => 't', provolatile => 's', prorettype => 'record',
   proargtypes => '',
-  proallargtypes => '{name,name,text,oid,bool,bool,int4,xid,xid,pg_lsn,pg_lsn,text,int8,bool,text,bool,bool,text}',
-  proargmodes => '{o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
-  proargnames => '{slot_name,plugin,slot_type,datoid,temporary,active,active_pid,xmin,catalog_xmin,restart_lsn,confirmed_flush_lsn,wal_status,safe_wal_size,two_phase,conflict_reason,failover,synced,invalidation_reason}',
+  proallargtypes => '{name,name,text,oid,bool,bool,int4,xid,xid,pg_lsn,pg_lsn,text,int8,bool,text,bool,bool,text,timestamptz,numeric}',
+  proargmodes => '{o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o,o}',
+  proargnames => '{slot_name,plugin,slot_type,datoid,temporary,active,active_pid,xmin,catalog_xmin,restart_lsn,confirmed_flush_lsn,wal_status,safe_wal_size,two_phase,conflict_reason,failover,synced,invalidation_reason,last_inactive_at,inactive_count}',
   prosrc => 'pg_get_replication_slots' },
 { oid => '3786', descr => 'set up a logical replication slot',
   proname => 'pg_create_logical_replication_slot', provolatile => 'v',
diff --git a/src/include/replication/slot.h b/src/include/replication/slot.h
index 8216c35481..87a56aa28a 100644
--- a/src/include/replication/slot.h
+++ b/src/include/replication/slot.h
@@ -133,6 +133,12 @@ typedef struct ReplicationSlotPersistentData
 	 * for logical slots on the primary server.
 	 */
 	bool		failover;
+
+	/* When did this slot become inactive last time? */
+	TimestampTz last_inactive_at;
+
+	/* How many times the slot has been inactive? */
+	uint64		inactive_count;
 } ReplicationSlotPersistentData;
 
 /*
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
index 0646874236..35fcf9d3d0 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
@@ -1476,8 +1476,10 @@ pg_replication_slots| SELECT l.slot_name,
     l.conflict_reason,
     l.failover,
     l.synced,
-    l.invalidation_reason
-   FROM (pg_get_replication_slots() l(slot_name, plugin, slot_type, datoid, temporary, active, active_pid, xmin, catalog_xmin, restart_lsn, confirmed_flush_lsn, wal_status, safe_wal_size, two_phase, conflict_reason, failover, synced, invalidation_reason)
+    l.invalidation_reason,
+    l.last_inactive_at,
+    l.inactive_count
+   FROM (pg_get_replication_slots() l(slot_name, plugin, slot_type, datoid, temporary, active, active_pid, xmin, catalog_xmin, restart_lsn, confirmed_flush_lsn, wal_status, safe_wal_size, two_phase, conflict_reason, failover, synced, invalidation_reason, last_inactive_at, inactive_count)
      LEFT JOIN pg_database d ON ((l.datoid = d.oid)));
 pg_roles| SELECT pg_authid.rolname,
     pg_authid.rolsuper,
-- 
2.34.1

