Re: Report bytes and transactions actually sent downtream

On Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM Bertrand Drouvot
<bertranddrouvot(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2025 at 12:22:05PM +0530, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
> > Here's patchset addressing two issues:
>
> Thanks for the patch update!
>
> > I
> > have added a note in documentation for plugin authors, warning them
> > that this isn't expected.
>
> What note are you referring to? (I'm failing to see it).

Patch 0002, changes in logicaldecoding.sgml. I am a bit hesitant to
add more details as to what "misleading" means since mentioning so
might be seen as a documented behaviour and thus plugin authors
relying on it.

>
> > I don't think it's worth adding complexity
> > in code to support such a case unless we see a practical need for the
> > same.
>
> Sounds good.
>
>
> > Issue 2: Once X + 2 is loaded, further statistics are accumulated on
> > the top of statistics accumulated by version X. Attached patch fixes
> > issue 2 by zero'ing out the stats when the plugin does not report the
> > statistics.
>
> +#define REPLSLOT_SET_TO_ZERO(fld) statent->fld = 0
>
> It looks like that the associated "undef" is missing.

Good catch. Fixed.

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Best Wishes,
Ashutosh Bapat