On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 11:37 AM I wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 7:12 PM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Now, one idea to solve this problem could be that whenever we skip
> > sending any change we do try to update the plugin progress via
> > OutputPluginUpdateProgress(for walsender, it will invoke
> > WalSndUpdateProgress), and there it tries to process replies and send
> > keep_alive if necessary as we do when we send some data via
> > OutputPluginWrite(for walsender, it will invoke WalSndWriteData). I
> > don't know whether it is a good idea to invoke such a mechanism for
> > every change we skip to send or we should do it after we skip sending
> > some threshold of continuous changes. I think later would be
> > preferred. Also, we might want to introduce a new parameter
> > send_keep_alive to this API so that there is flexibility to invoke
> > this mechanism as we don't need to invoke it while we are actually
> > sending data and before that, we just update the progress via this
> > API.
> ......
> Based on above, I think the second idea that sending some threshold of
> continuous changes might be better, I will do some research about this
> approach.
Based on the second idea, I wrote a new patch(see attachment).
Regards,
Wang wei