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For in between transactions.

This needs PR #584 to be merged first before the test passes, but the test is also purposely not in the CI schedule.

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The PR adds reusable TAP helpers for polling, log checks, synchronization, and apply-worker lookup. It adds and schedules a two-node regression test for replay-mode leakage after pg_cancel_backend().

Replay mode regression

Layer / File(s) Summary
Test helper infrastructure
tests/tap/t/SpockTest.pm
Adds sub-second polling, log inspection, synchronization, apply-worker PID lookup, and readiness polling.
Replay test setup
tests/tap/t/039_no_replay_mode_leak.pl
Defines the replay-mode scenario, creates a two-node cluster, prepares tables, and waits for subscription replication.
Replay test execution
tests/tap/t/039_no_replay_mode_leak.pl, tests/tap/schedule
Tests transdiscard and sub_disable after cancellation. It verifies worker continuity, healthy replication, logs, subscription status, and scheduled execution.

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A rabbit checks the worker’s trail

With swift small polls that never fail
The replay flag is swept away
Healthy rows arrive and stay
Two nodes thump a steady tale

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The PR adds a test whose log checks can miss server output when relative log paths are used, potentially making the test fail or behave unreliably. The change is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to resolve the path handling.

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}

destroy_cluster('Destroy replay mode leak cluster');
done_testing();

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Basically, nice sketch. Just make it simpler and introduce general mechanics into SpockTest.pm if needed - especially if vanilla's one already has something similar.

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I added some helpers. I almost made it a separate PR, but kept it here.

For in between transactions.
Two sleep(2) calls stood in for synchronisation.  The first waited for
the apply worker to pick up a reloaded spock.exception_behaviour, the
second for it to go idle before the cancel.  Neither was guaranteed:
the row arriving proves the commit is visible, but handle_commit() then
calls process_syncing_tables(), which opens a transaction of its own, so
the cancel could land outside the window the test is about and the test
would pass without exercising the leak.

Use spock.sync_event() and wait_for_sync_event() instead.  A
non-transactional sync event is decoded outside any remote transaction
and ordered after the preceding commit, so the origin reaching its LSN
means handle_commit() ran to the end -- replay queue reset, use_try_block
cleared.  It also orders the reload, since the worker tests
ConfigReloadPending before reading from the stream.

The same call replaces wait_for_row(), a 90s polling loop that burned its
full timeout on failure; a plain SELECT after the sync does the job.

Renumbered from 037, which PR #545 also claims, and added to
tests/tap/schedule -- CI runs run_tests.sh, which is schedule-driven, so
the test would never have been executed.

29 subtests to 33, passing, ~26s.
035, 036 and 039 each carried a copy of read_log_from() and
wait_for_log(); 013_origin_change_restore, 018, 020 and 035 each
hand-rolled a poll-a-query-until-it-returns-X loop under a different
name.  PostgreSQL::Test has wait_for_log(), slurp_file() and
poll_query_until() for exactly this, but nothing in this suite uses
PostgreSQL::Test, so add equivalents to SpockTest.pm instead:
node_logfile, log_offset, log_since, wait_for_log, poll_query_until,
sync_nodes and apply_worker_pid.  They poll every 0.1s, as
PostgreSQL::Test does, rather than every second.

039 uses them and loses its four local helpers, 173 lines to 128; it no
longer needs to know that a node's log is named after its port.  035 and
036 keep their own copies for now -- @EXPORT_OK exports only on request,
so nothing collides.
create_cluster() started the postgres instances and then slept a flat 17
seconds.  They are normally accepting connections in about two, so most
of that was dead time, paid by all 57 tap tests.

Poll wait_for_pg_ready() instead, which was already in the module and
already used by 013 and 016, and die naming the node if one never comes
up -- previously a server that failed to start showed up later as a
confusing psql error.  Its polling interval goes from 1s to the 0.1s the
other wait_* helpers use, so the wait does not round back up.

039 typically goes from 26s to 8s.  Run-to-run variance is unchanged and
still real -- an occasional run lands nearer 25s -- but the floor is no
longer set by the sleep.
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In `@tests/tap/t/SpockTest.pm`:
- Line 525: Update node_logfile to resolve relative LOG_DIR values against the
relevant node_datadirs entry, while leaving absolute LOG_DIR paths unchanged, so
wait_for_log and log_since locate PostgreSQL server logs correctly when
TESTLOGDIR is unset.
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Comment thread tests/tap/t/SpockTest.pm
sub node_logfile {
my ($node_num) = @_;
my $port = ($BASE_PORT + $node_num - 1);
return "$LOG_DIR/00$port.log";

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According to the official PostgreSQL documentation, when the logging_collector parameter is enabled, the log_directory parameter determines the directory where log files are created [1][2]. This directory path can be specified as either an absolute path or a path relative to the cluster data directory [1][3]. The default value for log_directory is log, which refers to a subdirectory named log within the data directory [1][4]. This setting can only be configured in the postgresql.conf file or on the server command line [1][5].

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Resolve relative server-log paths from each node data directory. When TESTLOGDIR is unset, PostgreSQL writes log_directory='logs' below each node data directory, but node_logfile reads logs/00$port.log relative to the TAP process directory. This causes wait_for_log and log_since to miss server output. Resolve relative $LOG_DIR values against the relevant $node_datadirs entry while preserving absolute paths.

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In `@tests/tap/t/SpockTest.pm` at line 525, Update node_logfile to resolve
relative LOG_DIR values against the relevant node_datadirs entry, while leaving
absolute LOG_DIR paths unchanged, so wait_for_log and log_since locate
PostgreSQL server logs correctly when TESTLOGDIR is unset.

is(scalar_query(2, "SELECT count(*) FROM $t WHERE id = 2"), '1',
"$mode: the next transaction applies");

unlike(log_since(2, $offset),

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log_since() returns '' in case if the open() fails - so unsuccessful operation passes successfully, right?

Comment thread tests/tap/t/SpockTest.pm
sub node_logfile {
my ($node_num) = @_;
my $port = ($BASE_PORT + $node_num - 1);
return "$LOG_DIR/00$port.log";

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This is a problem. It is based on $TESTLOGDIR, but without cherry-picking the commit c45f722, it is initialised only by run_tests.sh. So, we can't run this TAP test individually.

Comment thread tests/tap/t/SpockTest.pm Outdated
my ($node_num, $timeout) = @_;
$timeout //= 30;
my $query = "SELECT pid FROM pg_stat_activity " .
"WHERE application_name LIKE 'spock apply %'";

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Is there any chance of getting two records? - parallel subscription, different databases, whatever? I'd use LIMIT or/and datname filter to be sure

Both came out of review on 039.

log_since() returned '' when the log could not be opened.  Callers grep
the result, so an unreadable log looked exactly like a readable one that
does not contain the pattern, and the unlike() in 039 passed on a broken
read.  Die naming the path instead.

apply_worker_pid() matched application_name LIKE 'spock apply %' across
the whole instance.  A node with two subscriptions returns two rows and
scalar_query() strips the newline between them, so two pids came back as
one run of digits that still matched /^\d+$/ and went on to
pg_cancel_backend().  Restrict the match to the current database,
resolve a named subscription to the subid the worker carries
(spock_worker.c names workers "spock apply <dboid>:<subid>"), and die on
an ambiguous match.  039 now names its subscription.
$LOG_DIR fell back to a relative "logs" when TESTLOGDIR was unset, and
only run_tests.sh and the make target export it.

create_postgresql_conf() feeds $LOG_DIR to log_directory, and PostgreSQL
resolves a relative log_directory against the data directory while Perl
resolves it against the current directory.  The server logged to
<datadir>/logs/005442.log while the test read ./logs/005442.log, so
running a single test with plain "prove t/039_no_replay_mode_leak.pl"
could not work -- it died on the first log read.  036 and 001 were
unrunnable the same way.

rel2abs() rather than a TESTLOGDIR default, so a relative TESTLOGDIR is
also resolved.  Cherry-picking c45f722 would not have covered this: it
exports TESTLOGDIR from the make target, which repairs make and
run_tests.sh but leaves a bare prove run still broken.
Both kept a local read_log_from() that returned '' when the log could
not be opened, so an unreadable log looked exactly like a readable one
without the pattern.  Five assertions passed on a broken read: three
unlike() in 035, one in 036, and the cmp_ok() in 035 that counts retries
through count_in_log() -- a failed open counts zero, and zero is under
the cap.

Use log_offset(), log_since() and wait_for_log() from SpockTest.pm
instead of patching the local copies, so the two duplicated helpers go
away with the bug.  count_in_log() stays in 035, now reading through
log_since().  Neither test hardcodes the 00<port>.log name any more, and
both can be run individually.

107 and 16 subtests as before.
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There are some places where potentially false positives might occur - late SIGHUP or delayed log flush, for example. But nothing that actually blocks the merge itself.

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