Re: Support logical replication of DDLs

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

To: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>

Cc: Zheng Li <zhengli10@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, rajesh.rs0541@gmail.com

Date: 2022-04-07T10:19:10Z

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Add a run_as_owner option to subscriptions.
- 482675987bcd 16.0 cited
Refactor pgoutput_change().
- da324d6cd45b 16.0 cited
Print the correct aliases for DML target tables in ruleutils.
- df931e9ab35b 11.20 landed
- c8a5f1685fb7 15.3 landed
- 4efb4f0d4878 13.11 landed
- 3dd287c14fac 12.15 landed
- 393430f57544 16.0 landed
- 14345f3c6a7b 14.8 landed
Fix object identity string for transforms
- 9a312562314a 16.0 landed
Add grantable MAINTAIN privilege and pg_maintain role.
- 60684dd834a2 16.0 cited
Get rid of recursion-marker values in enum AlterTableType
- 840ff5f451cd 16.0 cited
Release cache tuple when no longer needed
- ed0fbc8e5ac9 15.0 cited
Empty search_path in logical replication apply worker and walsender.
- 11da97024abb 14.0 cited
Refactor format_type APIs to be more modular
- a26116c6cbf4 11.0 cited
Use wrappers of PG_DETOAST_DATUM_PACKED() more.
- 3a0d473192b2 10.0 cited

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 9:47 AM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 11:24 PM Zheng Li <zhengli10@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Good catch. The reason for having isTopLevel in the condition is
> > because I haven't decided if a DDL statement inside a PL should
> > be replicated from the user point of view. For example, if I execute a
> > plpgsql function or a stored procedure which creates a table under the hood,
> > does it always make sense to replicate the DDL without running the same
> > function or stored procedure on the subscriber? It probably depends on
> > the specific
> > use case. Maybe we can consider making this behavior configurable by the user.
>
> But then this could be true for DML as well right?  Like after
> replicating the function to the subscriber if we are sending the DML
> done by function then what's the problem in DDL.  I mean if there is
> no design issue in implementing this then I don't think there is much
> point in blocking the same or even providing configuration for this.
>

Valid point. I think if there are some design/implementation
constraints for this then it is better to document those(probably as
comments).

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.