Re: row filtering for logical replication

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 5:37 PM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > >
> >
> > Adding a patch that strives to do the logic that I described above.
> > For updates, the row filter is applied on both old_tuple
> > and new_tuple. This patch assumes that the row filter only uses
> > columns that are part of the REPLICA IDENTITY. (the current patch-set
> > only
> > restricts this for row-filters that are delete only)
> > The old_tuple only has columns that are part of the old_tuple and have
> > been changed, which is a problem while applying the row-filter. Since
> > unchanged REPLICA IDENTITY columns
> > are not present in the old_tuple, this patch creates a temporary
> > old_tuple by getting such column values from the new_tuple and then
> > applies the filter on this hand-created temp old_tuple. The way the
> > old_tuple is created can be better optimised in future versions.

I understand why this is done, but I have 2 concerns here 1) We are
having extra deform and copying the field from new to old in case it
is unchanged replica identity. 2) The same unchanged attribute values
get qualified in the old tuple as well as in the new tuple. What
exactly needs to be done is that the only updated field should be
validated as part of the old as well as the new tuple, the unchanged
field does not make sense to have redundant validation. For that we
will have to change the filter for the old tuple to just validate the
attributes which are actually modified and remaining unchanged and new
values will anyway get validated in the new tuple.

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Regards,
Dilip Kumar
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