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A COPY into a populated table aborts on the first duplicate key and leaves the sync status failed, after which apply silently discards every later change for that table. Stage the load and merge, and warn on the failure.

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Replication apply and synchronization

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Exception-log and replay state handling
src/spock_apply.c
Exception-log cleanup now resets complete entries, including local_tuple. Transaction lookup uses corrected bounds and subscription matching. Replay state is reset for unrelated transactions and re-armed for the next replayed transaction. Queued DDL uses the PostgreSQL fallthrough macro. Failed synchronization emits a one-time warning with a safely quoted spock.sub_resync_table command.
Bounded locking and staged table loading
src/spock_sync.c, tests/tap/t/014_pgdump_restore_conflict.pl
Initially empty targets use bounded locking. Lock timeouts roll back to staging. Staging preserves defaults, generated expressions, and identity definitions. Staged merges use explicit columns and shared command handling. The TAP test finalizes its dynamic test count with done_testing().

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A rabbit guards the log tonight,
Clears stale trails and sets them right.
Locks may yield, so stages wait,
Defaults and identities keep their state.
“Resync,” says Bunny, “then retry!”

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8e012

The change improves synchronization of populated tables, but concurrent apply and table-sync workers can still overwrite each other’s exception-log entries, potentially hiding or misattributing failures. Merge should wait for this bounded correctness issue to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

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In `@src/spock_apply.c`:
- Around line 4397-4406: Update the errhint in the synchronization failure path
to quote both resynchronization arguments: escape MySubscription->name with
quote_literal_cstr(), and construct the qualified relation using
quote_qualified_identifier() before escaping the complete value with
quote_literal_cstr(). Keep the existing table and subscription values while
ensuring the generated spock.sub_resync_table hint remains valid for names
requiring quoting.

In `@src/spock_sync.c`:
- Around line 1171-1214: Update the load path around the stage_load check so the
emptiness check and subsequent load are one protected operation: either always
create and load through the temporary staging table, or acquire and retain a
lock preventing writes to the target until the direct COPY completes. Ensure no
unprotected gap remains between the SELECT 1 check and the COPY, while
preserving the existing staging behavior and cleanup.
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1011-1013: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration

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Verify target read permissions and RLS visibility.

Line 1012 adds a SELECT requirement before each load. A synchronization role with INSERT but not SELECT, or an RLS policy that hides existing rows, can fail the probe or select direct COPY for a populated table. Confirm that the target connection can read all synchronized rows, or document and enforce this new requirement.


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@ibrarahmad For the original lolor issue, I am wondering if #559 will actually address the issue since lolor should be in the reciprocal repsets. This branch could use a rebase to get the latest code.

Still, we may have some general issue with resyncing that we need to address

Ibrar Ahmed added 2 commits August 20, 2026 07:38
A COPY into a populated table aborts on the first duplicate key and leaves
the sync status failed, after which apply silently discards every later
change for that table.  Stage the load and merge, and warn on the failure.
The hint is pasted into psql, so escape both arguments.  The emptiness probe
takes no lock, so re-check it under EXCLUSIVE before loading directly: a row
committed after the first probe would abort the COPY and wedge the table.

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725-730: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Use a worker-unique key for exception-log entries.

A sync worker also calls apply_work() while using the same MySubscription->name as the main apply worker. These lookups therefore select one shared entry for concurrent workers. One worker can clear or replace another worker’s commit_lsn, error message, and replay state. This can disable replay for the failed transaction or apply a different transaction under the exception policy.

Store and match a worker-unique identity, such as the final replication-slot name, in every exception-log entry. Update the allocation path that populates entry->slot_name as part of the same change.

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In `@src/spock_apply.c` around lines 725 - 730, Update exception-log allocation
and lookup so each entry uses a worker-unique identity, such as the final
replication-slot name, rather than the shared MySubscription->name. Ensure the
allocation path populates entry->slot_name with that identity and the worker
loop in apply_work() matches against the same value, preventing workers from
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In `@src/spock_sync.c`:
- Around line 1245-1275: The staging-table creation in the stage_load branch
must define only the columns listed by attnamelist, preserving target-side
defaults, identity generation, and generated-column behavior during the later
COPY/merge. Build the CREATE TEMP TABLE statement from attlist and handle an
empty attnamelist explicitly; also update the merge’s SELECT * behavior so
omitted/generated columns are not supplied to the target.

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In `@src/spock_apply.c`:
- Around line 725-730: Update exception-log allocation and lookup so each entry
uses a worker-unique identity, such as the final replication-slot name, rather
than the shared MySubscription->name. Ensure the allocation path populates
entry->slot_name with that identity and the worker loop in apply_work() matches
against the same value, preventing workers from sharing commit_lsn, error, and
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Reading this and the initial issue, I failed to find a connection. In the issue, there was n3 - a clear node without any LO objects. So, I'd see the reproduction that proves the issue origin was detected correctly.

A bare LIKE copies NOT NULL but not the default, generated expression or
identity that fills it, so staging a copy aborted on the constraint. Bound
the empty-table lock under a savepoint so it falls back instead of hanging.

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In `@src/spock_sync.c`:
- Around line 1310-1318: Update the staging decision around
target_table_has_rows() so that when it returns true, execute ROLLBACK TO
SAVEPOINT using SPOCK_SYNC_LOCK_SAVEPOINT before releasing the savepoint,
ensuring the target lock is released before staging. Preserve the existing
reset-and-release flow when direct COPY follows.
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Ibrar Ahmed added 2 commits August 21, 2026 08:59
Rolling back to the savepoint releases the EXCLUSIVE lock, so a table
found non-empty after locking no longer blocks writers for the whole copy.
The merge now names its columns; SELECT * would pass back a generated one.
The file planned 20 tests but ran 28, so the last eight were reported as
failures. The suite only runs nightly, so pull request CI never showed it.
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