Re: [PATCH] Use indexes on the subscriber when REPLICA IDENTITY is full on the publisher

On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 9:52 PM Önder Kalacı <onderkalaci@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As far as I can see, the following is the answer to the only remaining open discussion in this thread. Let me know if anything is missed.
>
>> (b) it appears to me that the patch decides
>> >> which index to use the first time it opens the rel (or if the rel gets
>> >> invalidated) on subscriber and then for all consecutive operations it
>> >> uses the same index. It is quite possible that after some more
>> >> operations on the table, using the same index will actually be
>> >> costlier than a sequence scan or some other index scan
>> >
>> >
>> > Regarding (b), yes that is a concern I share. And, I was actually considering sending another patch regarding this.
>> >
>> > Currently, I can see two options and happy to hear your take on these (or maybe another idea?)
>> >
>> > - Add a new class of invalidation callbacks: Today, if we do ALTER TABLE or CREATE INDEX on a table, the CacheRegisterRelcacheCallback helps us to re-create the cache entries. In this case, as far as I can see, we need a callback that is called when table "ANALYZE"d, because that is when the statistics change. That is the time picking a new index makes sense.
>> > However, that seems like adding another dimension to this patch, which I can try but also see that committing becomes even harder.
>> >
>>
>> This idea sounds worth investigating. I see that this will require
>> more work but OTOH, we can't allow the existing system to regress
>> especially because depending on workload it might regress badly. We
>> can create a patch for this atop the base patch for easier review/test
>> but I feel we need some way to address this point.
>>
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> It turns out that we already invalidate the relevant entries in LogicalRepRelMap/LogicalRepPartMap when "ANALYZE" (or VACUUM) updates any of the statistics in pg_class.
>
> The call-stack for analyze is roughly:
> do_analyze_rel()
>    -> vac_update_relstats()
>      -> heap_inplace_update()
>          -> if needs to apply any statistical change
>              -> CacheInvalidateHeapTuple()
>

Yeah, it appears that this will work but I see that we don't update
here for inherited stats, how does it work for such cases?

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.