Implement WAIT FOR command
authorAlexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 09:43:55 +0000 (11:43 +0200)
committerAlexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 09:44:13 +0000 (11:44 +0200)
commit447aae13b0305780e87cac7b0dd669db6fab3d9d
tree2ba9e956343d3f85d9d91011220047b8e80d6171
parent3b4e53a075ea5671b075f8fd873241179f8e64af
Implement WAIT FOR command

WAIT FOR is to be used on standby and specifies waiting for
the specific WAL location to be replayed.  This option is useful when
the user makes some data changes on primary and needs a guarantee to see
these changes are on standby.

WAIT FOR needs to wait without any snapshot held.  Otherwise, the snapshot
could prevent the replay of WAL records, implying a kind of self-deadlock.
This is why separate utility command seems appears to be the most robust
way to implement this functionality.  It's not possible to implement this as
a function.  Previous experience shows that stored procedures also have
limitation in this aspect.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAPpHfdsjtZLVzxjGT8rJHCYbM0D5dwkO+BBjcirozJ6nYbOW8Q@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CABPTF7UNft368x-RgOXkfj475OwEbp%2BVVO-wEXz7StgjD_%3D6sw%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Kartyshov Ivan <i.kartyshov@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Author: Xuneng Zhou <xunengzhou@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
Reviewed-by: Xuneng Zhou <xunengzhou@gmail.com>
21 files changed:
doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml
doc/src/sgml/ref/allfiles.sgml
doc/src/sgml/ref/wait_for.sgml [new file with mode: 0644]
doc/src/sgml/reference.sgml
src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
src/backend/access/transam/xlogrecovery.c
src/backend/commands/Makefile
src/backend/commands/meson.build
src/backend/commands/wait.c [new file with mode: 0644]
src/backend/parser/gram.y
src/backend/storage/lmgr/proc.c
src/backend/tcop/pquery.c
src/backend/tcop/utility.c
src/include/commands/wait.h [new file with mode: 0644]
src/include/nodes/parsenodes.h
src/include/parser/kwlist.h
src/include/tcop/cmdtaglist.h
src/test/recovery/meson.build
src/test/recovery/t/049_wait_for_lsn.pl [new file with mode: 0644]
src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list