Re: Support logical replication of DDLs

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>
Cc: "Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)" <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, Ajin Cherian <itsajin@gmail.com>, "Wei Wang (Fujitsu)" <wangw.fnst@fujitsu.com>, Runqi Tian <runqidev@gmail.com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, li jie <ggysxcq@gmail.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>, rajesh singarapu <rajesh.rs0541@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Zheng Li <zhengli10@gmail.com>
Date: 2023-04-24T03:46:04Z
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  1. Add a run_as_owner option to subscriptions.

  2. Refactor pgoutput_change().

  3. Print the correct aliases for DML target tables in ruleutils.

  4. Fix object identity string for transforms

  5. Add grantable MAINTAIN privilege and pg_maintain role.

  6. Get rid of recursion-marker values in enum AlterTableType

  7. Release cache tuple when no longer needed

  8. Empty search_path in logical replication apply worker and walsender.

  9. Refactor format_type APIs to be more modular

  10. Use wrappers of PG_DETOAST_DATUM_PACKED() more.

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 8:18 AM shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 3:40 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 9:11 AM shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Few comments for ddl_deparse.c in patch dated April17:
> >
> > >
> > > 6) There are plenty of places where we use 'append_not_present'
> > > without using 'append_null_object'.
> > > Do we need to have 'append_null_object' along with
> > > 'append_not_present' at these places?
> > >
> >
> > What is the difference if we add a null object or not before not_present?
> >
>
> Sorry I missed this question earlier. There is not much difference
> execution wise, The "present": false' attribute is sufficient to
> indicate that the expansion of that element is not needed when we
> convert back json to ddl command. It is only needed for 'verbose'
> mode. The 'append_null_object' call makes the format string complete
> for the user to understand it better.  Example:
>
> --without append_null_object, we get:
> "collation": {"fmt": "COLLATE", "present": false}
>
> --with  append_null_object, we get:
> With append_null_object(tmp_obj, "%{name}D"), it is:
> "collation": {"fmt": "COLLATE %{name}D", "name": null, "present": false}
>
> So fmt:  "COLLATE %{name}D" is more complete (even though not needed
> when the COLLATE clause is absent) and thus aligns to what we expect
> out of verbose mode.
>

Thanks for the explanation. However, I feel we can split this verbose
handling/optimization into a separate patch so that we can focus on
the core part first.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.