Make deleting stale pushers a background update

changelog.d/9536.bugfix

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix deleting pushers when using sharded pushers.

synapse/storage/databases/main/pusher.py

@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ def __init__(self, database: DatabasePool, db_conn: Connection, hs: "HomeServer"
             self._remove_deactivated_pushers,
         )
 
+        self.db_pool.updates.register_background_update_handler(
+            "remove_stale_pushers",
+            self._remove_stale_pushers,
+        )
+
     def _decode_pushers_rows(self, rows: Iterable[dict]) -> Iterator[PusherConfig]:
         """JSON-decode the data in the rows returned from the `pushers` table
 
@@ -337,6 +342,53 @@ def _delete_pushers(txn) -> int:
 
         return number_deleted
 
+    async def _remove_stale_pushers(self, progress: dict, batch_size: int) -> int:
+        """A background update that deletes all pushers for logged out devices.
+
+        Note that we don't proacively tell the pusherpool that we've deleted
+        these (just because its a bit off a faff to do from here), but they will
+        get cleaned up at the next restart
+        """
+
+        last_pusher = progress.get("last_pusher", 0)
+
+        def _delete_pushers(txn) -> int:
+
+            sql = """
+                SELECT p.id, access_token FROM pushers AS p
+                LEFT JOIN access_tokens AS a ON (p.access_token = a.id)
+                WHERE p.id > ?
+                ORDER BY p.id ASC
+                LIMIT ?
+            """
+
+            txn.execute(sql, (last_pusher, batch_size))
+            pushers = [(row[0], row[1]) for row in txn]
+
+            self.db_pool.simple_delete_many_txn(
+                txn,
+                table="pushers",
+                column="id",
+                iterable=(pusher_id for pusher_id, token in pushers if token is None),
+                keyvalues={},
+            )
+
+            if pushers:
+                self.db_pool.updates._background_update_progress_txn(
+                    txn, "remove_stale_pushers", {"last_pusher": pushers[-1][0]}
+                )
+
+            return len(pushers)
+
+        number_deleted = await self.db_pool.runInteraction(
+            "_remove_stale_pushers", _delete_pushers
+        )
+
+        if number_deleted < batch_size:
+            await self.db_pool.updates._end_background_update("remove_stale_pushers")
+
+        return number_deleted
+
 
 class PusherStore(PusherWorkerStore):
     def get_pushers_stream_token(self) -> int:

synapse/storage/databases/main/schema/delta/59/08delete_stale_pushers.sql

@@ -16,4 +16,5 @@
 
 -- Delete all pushers associated with deleted devices. This is to clear up after
 -- a bug where they weren't correctly deleted when using workers.
-DELETE FROM pushers WHERE access_token NOT IN (SELECT id FROM access_tokens);
+INSERT INTO background_updates (ordering, update_name, progress_json) VALUES
+  (5908, 'remove_stale_pushers', '{}');