Re: Support logical replication of DDLs

Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>

From: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
To: Zheng Li <zhengli10@gmail.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, rajesh.rs0541@gmail.com, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-03-18T23:33:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Add a run_as_owner option to subscriptions.

  2. Refactor pgoutput_change().

  3. Print the correct aliases for DML target tables in ruleutils.

  4. Fix object identity string for transforms

  5. Add grantable MAINTAIN privilege and pg_maintain role.

  6. Get rid of recursion-marker values in enum AlterTableType

  7. Release cache tuple when no longer needed

  8. Empty search_path in logical replication apply worker and walsender.

  9. Refactor format_type APIs to be more modular

  10. Use wrappers of PG_DETOAST_DATUM_PACKED() more.

On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 at 01:25, Zheng Li <zhengli10@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for the quick review!
>
>> And, when I try to use git am to apply the patch, it complains:
>>
>>         $ git am ~/0001-syntax-pg_publication-pg_dump-ddl_replication.patch
>>         Patch format detection failed.
>
> git apply works for me. I'm not sure why git am complains.
> I also created a git branch to make code sharing easier, please try this out:
> https://github.com/zli236/postgres/tree/ddl_replication
>

Yeah, I can use git apply, I'm not sure how did you generate the patch.


>> I also think that ddl = '' isn't a good way to disable DDL replication, how
>> about using ddl = 'none' or something else?
>
> The syntax follows the existing convention of the WITH publish option.
> For example in CREATE PUBLICATION mypub WITH (publish = '')
> it means don't publish any DML change. So I'd leave it as is for now.
>

Agreed.

>> The test_decoding test case cannot work as expected, see below:
> .....
>>   DDL message: transactional: 1 prefix:  role: redacted, search_path: "$user", public, sz: 47 content:CREATE TABLE tab1 (id serial unique, data int);
>>   BEGIN
>>   sequence public.tab1_id_seq: transactional:1 last_value: 1 log_cnt: 0 is_called:0
>>
>> Since the DDL message contains the username, and we try to replace the username with 'redacted' to avoid this problem,
>>
>>     \o | sed 's/role.*search_path/role: redacted, search_path/g'
>>
>> However, the title and dash lines may have different lengths for different
>> usernames.  To avoid this problem, how about using a specified username when
>> initializing the database for this regression test?
>
> I don't understand the question, do you have an example of when the
> test doesn't work? It runs fine for me.
>

You should use a different user that has different length from your current one.
For example:

        px@localhost$ make check-world

>
>> t/002_pg_dump.pl .............. 13/?
>> #   Failed test 'binary_upgrade: should dump CREATE PUBLICATION pub1'
>> #   at t/002_pg_dump.pl line 3916.
>> # Review binary_upgrade results in /home/px/Codes/postgresql/Debug/src/bin/pg_dump/tmp_check/tmp_test_jgRI
> ......
>> Failed 84/7709 subtests
>> t/003_pg_dump_with_server.pl .. ok
>> t/010_dump_connstr.pl ......... ok
>>
>> Test Summary Report
>> -------------------
>> t/002_pg_dump.pl            (Wstat: 21504 Tests: 7709 Failed: 84)
>
> This is fixed in the latest version. I need to remind myself to run
> make check-world in the future.
>

Thanks for updating the patch.

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Regrads,
Japin Li.
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