Move catchup of replication streams to worker. (#7024)

This changes the replication protocol so that the server does not send down `RDATA` for rows that happened before the client connected. Instead, the server will send a `POSITION` and clients then query the database (or master out of band) to get up to date.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/replication/tcp/client.py b/synapse/replication/tcp/client.py

index 02ab5b66ea..7e7ad0f798 100644
--- a/synapse/replication/tcp/client.py
+++ b/synapse/replication/tcp/client.py
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ class ReplicationClientFactory(ReconnectingClientFactory):
         self.client_name = client_name
         self.handler = handler
         self.server_name = hs.config.server_name
+        self.hs = hs
         self._clock = hs.get_clock()  # As self.clock is defined in super class
 
         hs.get_reactor().addSystemEventTrigger("before", "shutdown", self.stopTrying)
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@ class ReplicationClientFactory(ReconnectingClientFactory):
     def buildProtocol(self, addr):
         logger.info("Connected to replication: %r", addr)
         return ClientReplicationStreamProtocol(
-            self.client_name, self.server_name, self._clock, self.handler
+            self.hs, self.client_name, self.server_name, self._clock, self.handler,
         )
 
     def clientConnectionLost(self, connector, reason):