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commit    048d44175a019cca7e08dac45bf95db680b4ed87
Author:   Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Date:     Thu Jan 26 20:15:23 2017 +0000

    Reset hot standby xmin after restart
    
    Hot_standby_feedback could be reset by reload and worked correctly, but if
    the server was restarted rather than reloaded the xmin was not reset.
    Force reset always if hot_standby_feedback is enabled at startup.
    
    Ants Aasma, Craig Ringer
    
    Reported-by: Ants Aasma


 src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c b/src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c
index 96ac6a6a602..0158ae06826 100644
--- a/src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c
+++ b/src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c
@@ -1095,7 +1095,10 @@ XLogWalRcvSendReply(bool force, bool requestReply)
  * in case they don't have a watch.
  *
  * If the user disables feedback, send one final message to tell sender
- * to forget about the xmin on this standby.
+ * to forget about the xmin on this standby. We also send this message
+ * on first connect because a previous connection might have set xmin
+ * on a replication slot. (If we're not using a slot it's harmless to
+ * send a feedback message explicitly setting InvalidTransactionId).
  */
 static void
 XLogWalRcvSendHSFeedback(bool immed)
@@ -1105,7 +1108,8 @@ XLogWalRcvSendHSFeedback(bool immed)
 	uint32		nextEpoch;
 	TransactionId xmin;
 	static TimestampTz sendTime = 0;
-	static bool master_has_standby_xmin = false;
+	/* initially true so we always send at least one feedback message */
+	static bool master_has_standby_xmin = true;
 
 	/*
 	 * If the user doesn't want status to be reported to the master, be sure
@@ -1130,14 +1134,17 @@ XLogWalRcvSendHSFeedback(bool immed)
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * If Hot Standby is not yet active there is nothing to send. Check this
-	 * after the interval has expired to reduce number of calls.
+	 * If Hot Standby is not yet accepting connections there is nothing to
+	 * send. Check this after the interval has expired to reduce number of
+	 * calls.
+	 *
+	 * Bailing out here also ensures that we don't send feedback until we've
+	 * read our own replication slot state, so we don't tell the master to
+	 * discard needed xmin or catalog_xmin from any slots that may exist
+	 * on this replica.
 	 */
 	if (!HotStandbyActive())
-	{
-		Assert(!master_has_standby_xmin);
 		return;
-	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Make the expensive call to get the oldest xmin once we are certain


[parent: 2e024f83bd42]