Re: row filtering for logical replication

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>, Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422@gmail.com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>, Rahila Syed <rahilasyed90@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, Önder Kalacı <onderkalaci@gmail.com>, japin <japinli@hotmail.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-07-13T19:21:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Release cache tuple when no longer needed

  2. Add some additional tests for row filters in logical replication.

  3. Fix one of the tests introduced in commit 52e4f0cd47.

  4. Allow specifying row filters for logical replication of tables.

  5. Move scanint8() to numutils.c

  6. Replace Test::More plans with done_testing

  7. Reduce relcache access in WAL sender streaming logical changes

  8. Small cleanups related to PUBLICATION framework code

  9. Add a view to show the stats of subscription workers.

  10. Allow publishing the tables of schema.

  11. Doc: improve documentation of CREATE/ALTER SUBSCRIPTION.

  12. Add PublicationTable and PublicationRelInfo structs

  13. Remove unused argument "txn" in maybe_send_schema().

  14. Add prepare API support for streaming transactions in logical replication.

  15. Unify PostgresNode's new() and get_new_node() methods

  16. Use l*_node() family of functions where appropriate

  17. Add support for prepared transactions to built-in logical replication.

  18. Restore the portal-level snapshot after procedure COMMIT/ROLLBACK.

  19. Rename a parse node to be more general

  20. Remove unused column atttypmod from initial tablesync query

  21. SEARCH and CYCLE clauses

On 2021-Jul-13, Tomas Vondra wrote:

> On 7/13/21 5:44 PM, Jeff Davis wrote:

> > * Andres also mentioned that the function should not leak memory.
> > * One use case for this feature is when sharding a table, so the
> > expression should allow things like "hashint8(x) between ...". I'd
> > really like to see this problem solved, as well.
> 
> I think built-in functions should be fine, because generally don't get
> dropped etc. (And if you drop built-in function, well - sorry.)
> 
> Not sure about the memory leaks - I suppose we'd free memory for each row,
> so this shouldn't be an issue I guess ...

I'm not sure we need to be terribly strict about expression evaluation
not leaking any memory here.   I'd rather have a memory context that can
be reset per row.

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Álvaro Herrera         PostgreSQL Developer  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/