Re: row filtering for logical replication

Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>

From: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
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Date: 2022-01-20T04:21:13Z
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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 Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 2:29 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 7:51 AM Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Here are some review comments for v68-0001.
> >
> >
> > 3. src/backend/replication/pgoutput/pgoutput.c - pgoutput_row_filter_init
> >
> > + /* If no filter found, clean up the memory and return */
> > + if (!has_filter)
> > + {
> > + if (entry->cache_expr_cxt != NULL)
> > + MemoryContextDelete(entry->cache_expr_cxt);
> > +
> > + entry->exprstate_valid = true;
> > + return;
> > + }
> >
> > IMO this should be refactored to have if/else, so the function has
> > just a single point of return and a single point where the
> > exprstate_valid is set. e.g.
> >
> > if (!has_filter)
> > {
> > /* If no filter found, clean up the memory and return */
> > ...
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > /* Create or reset the memory context for row filters */
> > ...
> > /*
> > * Now all the filters for all pubactions are known. Combine them when
> > * their pubactions are same.
> >  ...
> > }
> >
> > entry->exprstate_valid = true;
> >
>
> This part of the code is changed in v68 which makes the current code
> more suitable as we don't need to deal with memory context in if part.
> I am not sure if it is good to add the else block here but I think
> that is just a matter of personal preference.
>

Sorry, my mistake - I quoted the v67 source instead of the v68 source.

There is no else needed now at all. My suggestion becomes. e.g.

if (has_filter)
{
    // deal with mem ctx ...
    // combine filters ...
}
entry->exprstate_valid = true;
return;

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Kind Regards,
Peter Smith
Fujitsu Australia