Re: row filtering for logical replication

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422@gmail.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>, Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.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: 2021-07-20T04:24:58Z
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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 Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 4:31 PM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 3:12 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Maybe a second option is to have replication change any UPDATE into
> > > either an INSERT or a DELETE, if the old or the new row do not pass the
> > > filter, respectively.  That way, the databases would remain consistent.
>
> Yeah, I think this is the best way to keep the data consistent.
>

Today, while studying the behavior of this particular operation in
other databases, I found that IBM's InfoSphere Data Replication does
exactly this. See [1]. I think there is a merit if want to follow this
idea.

[1] - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/idr/11.4.0?topic=rows-search-conditions

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.