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Re: row filtering for logical replication

Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>

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From: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Cc: Ajin Cherian <itsajin@gmail.com>, Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@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>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-09-22T05:45:23Z
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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 Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 9:20 AM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 6:42 AM Ajin Cherian <itsajin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 9:42 PM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 4:29 PM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have one more question, while looking into the
> > > ExtractReplicaIdentity() function, it seems that if any of the "rep
> > > ident key" fields is changed then we will write all the key fields in
> > > the WAL as part of the old tuple, not just the changed fields.  That
> > > means either the old tuple will be NULL or it will be having all the
> > > key attributes.  So if we are supporting filter only on the "rep ident
> > > key fields" then is there any need to copy the fields from the new
> > > tuple to the old tuple?
> > >
> >
> > Yes, I just figured this out while testing. So we don't need to copy fields
> > from the new tuple to the old tuple.
> >
> > But there is still the case of your fix for the unchanged toasted RI
> > key fields in the new tuple
> > which needs to be copied from the old tuple to the new tuple.

Yes, we will have to do that.

> > There is currently logic in ReorderBufferToastReplace() which already
> > deforms the new tuple
> > to detoast changed toasted fields in the new tuple. I think if we can
> > enhance this logic for our
> > purpose, then we can avoid an extra deform of the new tuple.
> > But I think you had earlier indicated that having untoasted unchanged
> > values in  the new tuple
> > can be bothersome.
> >
>
> I think it will be too costly on the subscriber side during apply
> because it will update all the unchanged toasted values which will
> lead to extra writes both for WAL and data.

Right we should not do that.

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Regards,
Dilip Kumar
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