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Re: row filtering for logical replication

Ajin Cherian <itsajin@gmail.com>

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From: Ajin Cherian <itsajin@gmail.com>
To: Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>
Cc: "houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com" <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422@gmail.com>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>, "tanghy.fnst@fujitsu.com" <tanghy.fnst@fujitsu.com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@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>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-12-21T00:54:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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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 Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 5:58 AM Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com> wrote:
>
> I reviewed 0003. It uses TupleTableSlot instead of HeapTuple. I probably missed
> the explanation but it requires more changes (logicalrep_write_tuple and 3 new
> entries into RelationSyncEntry). I replaced this patch with a slightly
> different one (0005 in this patch set) that uses HeapTuple instead. I didn't
> only simple tests and it requires tests. I noticed that this patch does not
> include a test to cover the case where TOASTed values are not included in the
> new tuple. We should probably add one.

The reason I changed the code to use virtualtuple slots is to reduce
tuple deforming overhead.
Dilip raised this very valid comment in [1]:

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 4:29 PM Dilip Kumar
<dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>In pgoutput_row_filter_update(), first, we are deforming the tuple in
>local datum, then modifying the tuple, and then reforming the tuple.
>I think we can surely do better here. Currently, you are reforming
>the tuple so that you can store it in the scan slot by calling
>ExecStoreHeapTuple which will be used for expression evaluation.
>Instead of that what you need to do is to deform the tuple using
>tts_values of the scan slot and later call ExecStoreVirtualTuple(), so
>advantages are 1) you don't need to reform the tuple 2) the expression
>evaluation machinery doesn't need to deform again for fetching the
>value of the attribute, instead it can directly get from the value
>from the virtual tuple.

Storing the old tuple/new tuple in a slot and re-using the slot avoids
the overhead of
continuous deforming of tuple at multiple levels in the code.

regards,
Ajin Cherian
[1] - https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAFiTN-vwBjy+eR+iodkO5UVN5cPv_xx1=s8ehzgCRJZA+AztAA@mail.gmail.com