Don't crash-loop the apply worker on a schema-mismatched column - #620
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe relation cache now collects locally missing columns and reports them during initial apply. During exception replay, it returns ChangesUnknown-column handling
Priority: ➖ Normal Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR’s single-column handling is covered, but incomplete reporting of multiple schema mismatches could regress undetected. Add the plural-case assertion before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@tests/tap/t/108_apply_unknown_column_exception.pl`:
- Line 40: The test must count the apply-worker restart signature in the replay
failure log: update the log-analysis variables around $pg_log_n2 to count
occurrences of “error during exception handling” in $new_log, using the result
to detect repeated restart attempts and the crash-loop regression.
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| my $conn_n1 = "host=$host dbname=$dbname port=$p1 user=$db_user password=$db_password"; | ||
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| # PG log file for n2, to look for the crash-loop log lines directly. | ||
| my $pg_log_n2 = "$config->{log_dir}/00${p2}.log"; |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Count the apply-worker restart signature. The replay failure branch in src/spock_apply.c logs error during exception handling and exiting to allow worker restart. It does not emit caught exception while use_try_block=true, so line 209 cannot detect this crash-loop regression.
| my $pg_log_n2 = "$config->{log_dir}/00${p2}.log"; | |
| my $retry_storm = () = ($new_log =~ /error during exception handling/g); |
This is a test-coverage failure, not a maintainability issue.
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In `@tests/tap/t/108_apply_unknown_column_exception.pl` at line 40, The test must
count the apply-worker restart signature in the replay failure log: update the
log-analysis variables around $pg_log_n2 to count occurrences of “error during
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Add a scheduled TAP test that creates a genuine schema mismatch: the provider table has a column that is absent from the subscriber. Replicating a row from that table reproduces an error while spock_relation_open() builds the remote-to-local attribute map, before row-level exception handling is entered. Without the fix, exception replay raises the same error, restarts the apply worker at the unadvanced origin LSN, and prevents later transactions from replicating. Verify that the offending transaction is logged and discarded, the subscription remains healthy, repeated mismatches do not cause a retry storm, and unrelated transactions continue to replicate.
spock_relation_open() raised a bare elog(ERROR) for a remote column missing locally, before the per-row exception-handling subtransaction is ever entered, so spock.exception_behaviour never applied and the same error kept re-throwing on every replay, restarting the worker forever. tupdesc_get_att_by_name() now returns -1 for a missing column instead of erroring, and spock_relation_open() handles that the same way it already handles an unresolvable relation: raise on the first attempt, but return NULL during replay so the caller discards and logs the action through the normal exception path.
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🟡 Minor · Cover the UPDATE exception path separately. · 108_apply_unknown_column_exception.pl:1-226
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winCover the UPDATE exception path separately. The test issues only
INSERTchanges tot1. The INSERT path exercisesspock_relation_openand the changed missing-column scan, but it does not exercisehandle_update→spock_read_update, which has a separate transaction-discard and logging branch. An UPDATE-specific regression may therefore pass this test while breaking transaction discard or continued replication. Add an UPDATE ont1and assert that it is logged and discarded, the subscription remainsreplicating, and a later control-table insert replicates. The missing-column return occurs beforespock_apply_heap_update, so this covers UPDATE exception handling rather than delta-function execution.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@tests/tap/t/108_apply_unknown_column_exception.pl`:
- Around line 1-226: Extend the regression test after the existing INSERT checks
to exercise the UPDATE path on mismatched table t1, using a row that includes
the missing column c. Assert that the UPDATE creates a new spock.exception_log
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spock_relation_open() stopped at the first column the local relation lacks, so repairing a drifted schema meant fixing one column, hitting the same error, and repeating. Collect them all and report once. The wording for a single missing column is unchanged, so existing tests still match. Also close with NoLock on that path, matching every other apply-path close: the lock is held until the replication transaction ends rather than being dropped on a table we are part way through. (cherry picked from commit a996e4b)
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🟡 Minor · Cover the multi-column mismatch. · 108_apply_unknown_column_exception.pl:63-170
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winCover the multi-column mismatch.
The subscriber lacks only provider column
c, so the test covers only the singular error path. A scan that stops after the first missing column would still pass. Add a second provider-only column and assert that the plural error includes both missing names. This is distinct from the existing single-column exception coverage.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@tests/tap/t/108_apply_unknown_column_exception.pl`:
- Around line 63-170: Extend the mismatched table schema to include a second
provider-only column, then update the replicated inserts and expected server-log
assertion in the test around t1 so the unknown-column error must use plural
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spock_relation_open() raised a bare elog(ERROR) for a remote column
missing locally, before the per-row exception-handling subtransaction
is ever entered, so spock.exception_behaviour never applied and the
same error kept re-throwing on every replay, restarting the worker
forever.
tupdesc_get_att_by_name() now returns -1 for a missing column instead
of erroring, and spock_relation_open() handles that the same way it
already handles an unresolvable relation: raise on the first attempt,
but return NULL during replay so the caller discards and logs the
action through the normal exception path.