Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/develop' into matrix-org-hotfixes

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/replication/tcp/streams/_base.py b/synapse/replication/tcp/streams/_base.py

index cc34dfb322..1f6402c2da 100644
--- a/synapse/replication/tcp/streams/_base.py
+++ b/synapse/replication/tcp/streams/_base.py
@@ -305,6 +305,14 @@ class BackfillStream(Stream):
         # which means we need to negate it.
         return -self.store._backfill_id_gen.get_minimal_local_current_token()
 
+    def can_discard_position(
+        self, instance_name: str, prev_token: int, new_token: int
+    ) -> bool:
+        # Backfill stream can't go backwards, so we know we can ignore any
+        # positions where the tokens are from before the current token.
+
+        return new_token <= self.current_token(instance_name)
+
 
 class PresenceStream(_StreamFromIdGen):
     @attr.s(slots=True, frozen=True, auto_attribs=True)
@@ -519,6 +527,14 @@ class CachesStream(Stream):
             return self.store._cache_id_gen.get_minimal_local_current_token()
         return self.current_token(self.local_instance_name)
 
+    def can_discard_position(
+        self, instance_name: str, prev_token: int, new_token: int
+    ) -> bool:
+        # Caches streams can't go backwards, so we know we can ignore any
+        # positions where the tokens are from before the current token.
+
+        return new_token <= self.current_token(instance_name)
+
 
 class DeviceListsStream(_StreamFromIdGen):
     """Either a user has updated their devices or a remote server needs to be