Re: logical decoding and replication of sequences, take 2

From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, "Zhijie Hou (Fujitsu)" <houzj(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: logical decoding and replication of sequences, take 2
Date: 2023-12-06 10:19:29
Message-ID: CAA4eK1Lv8C+mtgp9e=CGZYM3ExN_9eN0u4aHsJcRbJPnjRWcwQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 11:56 PM Tomas Vondra
<tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 12/3/23 18:52, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> > ...
> >
>
> Another idea is that maybe we could somehow inform ReorderBuffer whether
> the output plugin even is interested in sequences. That'd help with
> cases where we don't even want/need to replicate sequences, e.g. because
> the publication does not specify (publish=sequence).
>
> What happens now in that case is we call ReorderBufferQueueSequence(),
> it does the whole dance with starting/aborting the transaction, calls
> rb->sequence() which just does "meh" and doesn't do anything. Maybe we
> could just short-circuit this by asking the output plugin somehow.
>
> In an extreme case the plugin may not even specify the sequence
> callbacks, and we're still doing all of this.
>

We could explore this but I guess it won't solve the problem we are
facing in cases where all sequences are published and plugin has
specified the sequence callbacks. I think it would add some overhead
of this check in positive cases where we decide to anyway do send the
changes.

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

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