Re: Support logical replication of DDLs

Zheng Li <zhengli10@gmail.com>

From: Zheng Li <zhengli10@gmail.com>

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

Cc: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, rajesh singarapu <rajesh.rs0541@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2022-05-03T21:30:20Z

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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

> > >Another somewhat unrelated problem I see with this work is how to save
> > >recursion of the same command between nodes (when the involved nodes
> > >replicate DDLs). For DMLs, we can avoid that via replication origins
> > >as is being done in the patch proposed [1] but not sure how will we
> > >deal with that here?
> >
> > I'll need to investigate "recursion of the same command between
> > nodes", could you provide an example?
> >
>
> See email [1]. I think the same solution should work for your proposal
> as well because I see that LogLogicalMessage includes origin but it is
> better if you can confirm it.
>
> [1] - https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CALDaNm0gwjY_4HFxvvty01BOT01q_fJLKQ3pWP9=9orqubhjcQ@mail.gmail.com

Yes, I applied the patches from [1] and can confirm that the solution
for "infinite recursion of the same command(DDL command in this case)
between nodes" works with my patches.

Regards,
Zheng