Re: Column Filtering in Logical Replication

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

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com, Rahila Syed <rahilasyed90@gmail.com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2022-01-12T18:57:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2022-Jan-11, Justin Pryzby wrote:

> Is there any coordination between the "column filter" patch and the "row
> filter" patch ?

Not beyond the grammar, which I tested.

> Are they both on track for PG15 ?

I think they're both on track, yes.

> Has anybody run them together ?

Not me.

> I have a suggestion: for the functions for which both patches are adding
> additional argument types, define a filtering structure for both patches to
> use.  Similar to what we did for some utility statements in a3dc92600.
> 
> I'm referring to:
> logicalrep_write_update()
> logicalrep_write_tuple()

Fixed: the row filter patch no longer adds extra arguments to those
functions.

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Commits

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  1. Doc: Explain about Column List feature.

  2. Doc: fix column list vs. replica identity rules.

  3. Prohibit combining publications with different column lists.

  4. Fix the check to limit sync workers.

  5. Wait for subscription to sync in t/031_column_list.sql

  6. Move prattrs to the pg_publication_rel section in docs

  7. Allow specifying column lists for logical replication

  8. Fix row filters with multiple publications

  9. Fix publish_as_relid with multiple publications

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

  11. Add index on pg_publication_rel.prpubid

  12. Avoid using DefElemAction in AlterPublicationStmt

  13. Small cleanups related to PUBLICATION framework code

  14. Add PublicationTable and PublicationRelInfo structs

  15. Fix various concurrency issues in logical replication worker launching