RE: row filtering for logical replication

Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu) <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>

From: "houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com" <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>, "tanghy.fnst@fujitsu.com" <tanghy.fnst@fujitsu.com>, Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>, Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422@gmail.com>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, Ajin Cherian <itsajin@gmail.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: 2022-01-12T13:48:55Z
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

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On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 5:38 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 3:00 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > I just looked at 0002 because of Justin Pryzby's comment in the column
> > filtering thread, and realized that the pgoutput row filtering has a
> > very strange API, which receives both heap tuples and slots; and we
> > seem to convert to and from slots in seemingly unprincipled ways.  I
> > don't think this is going to fly.  I think it's OK for the initial
> > entry into pgoutput to be HeapTuple (but only because that's what
> > ReorderBufferTupleBuf has), but it should be converted a slot right
> > when it enters pgoutput, and then used as a slot throughout.
> >
> 
> One another thing that we can improve about 0002 is to unify the APIs for row
> filtering for update and insert/delete. I find having separate APIs a bit awkward.

Thanks for the comments.

Attach the v63 patch set which include the following changes.

Based on Alvaro and Amit's suggestions:
- merged 0001 and 0002 into one patch.
- did some initial refactorings for the interface of row_filter functions.
  For now, it receives only slots.
- unify the APIs for row filtering for update and insert/delete

And addressed some comments received earlier.
- update some comments and some cosmetic changes.   (Peter)
- Add a new enum RowFilterPubAction use as the index of filter expression  (Euler,Amit)
  array.
- Fix a bug that when transform UPDATE to INSERT, the patch didn't pass the (Euler)
  transformed tuple to logicalrep_write_insert.

Best regards,
Hou zj