Re: row filtering for logical replication

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422@gmail.com>
Cc: "houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com" <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>, "tanghy.fnst@fujitsu.com" <tanghy.fnst@fujitsu.com>, Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, Ajin Cherian <itsajin@gmail.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@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>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-01-19T13:04:53Z
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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 Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:23 AM Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 2:31 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 8:41 AM Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 2:31 AM houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com
> > > <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > (2) GetTopMostAncestorInPublication
> > > > > Is there a reason why there is no "break" after finding a
> > > > > topmost_relid? Why keep searching and potentially overwrite a
> > > > > previously-found topmost_relid? If it's intentional, I think that a
> > > > > comment should be added to explain it.
> > > >
> > > > The code was moved from get_rel_sync_entry, and was trying to get the
> > > > last oid in the ancestor list which is published by the publication. Do you
> > > > have some suggestions for the comment ?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Maybe the existing comment should be updated to just spell it out like that:
> > >
> > > /*
> > >  * Find the "topmost" ancestor that is in this publication, by getting the
> > >  * last Oid in the ancestors list which is published by the publication.
> > >  */
> > >
> >
> > I am not sure that is helpful w.r.t what Peter is looking for as that
> > is saying what code is doing and he wants to know why it is so? I
> > think one can understand this by looking at get_partition_ancestors
> > which will return the top-most ancestor as the last element. I feel
> > either we can say see get_partition_ancestors or maybe explain how the
> > ancestors are stored in this list.
> >
>
> (note: I asked the original question about why there is no "break", not Peter)
>

Okay.

> Maybe instead, an additional comment could be added to the
> GetTopMostAncestorInPublication function to say "Note that the
> ancestors list is ordered such that the topmost ancestor is at the end
> of the list".
>

I am fine with this and I see that Hou-San already used this in the
latest version of patch.

> Unfortunately the get_partition_ancestors function
> currently doesn't explicitly say that the topmost ancestors are
> returned at the end of the list (I guess you could conclude it by then
> looking at get_partition_ancestors_worker code which it calls).
> Also, this leads me to wonder if searching the ancestors list
> backwards might be better here, and break at the first match?
>

I am not sure of the gains by doing that and anyway, that is a
separate topic of discussion as it is an existing code.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.