RE: Data is copied twice when specifying both child and parent table in publication

On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 17:02 PM Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>

Thanks for your comments. Sorry for not replying in time.

> On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 4:49 PM wangw(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com
> <wangw(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 11:08 AM Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > > Hi Wang-san. Here are my review comments for HEAD_v12-0001 patch.
> >
> ...
> > >
> > > 3. QUESTION - pg_get_publication_tables / fetch_table_list
> > >
> > > When the same table is published by different publications (but there
> > > are other differences like row-filters/column-lists in each
> > > publication) the result tuple of this function does not include the
> > > pubid. Maybe the SQL of pg_publication_tables/fetch_table_list() is OK
> > > as-is but how does it manage to associate each table with the correct
> > > tuple?
> > >
> > > I know it apparently all seems to work but I’m not how does that
> > > happen? Can you explain why a puboid is not needed for the result
> > > tuple of this function?
> >
> > Sorry, I am not sure I understand your question.
> > I try to answer your question by explaining the two functions you mentioned:
> >
> > First, the function pg_get_publication_tables gets the list (see table_infos)
> > that included published table and the corresponding publication. Then based
> > on this list, the function pg_get_publication_tables returns information
> > (scheme, relname, row filter and column list) about the published tables in the
> > publications list. It just doesn't return pubid.
> >
> > Then, the SQL in the function fetch_table_list will get the columns in the
> > column list from pg_attribute. (This is to return all columns when the column
> > list is not specified)
> >
>
> I meant, for example, if the different publications specified
> different col-lists for the same table then IIUC the
> fetch_table_lists() is going to return 2 list elements
> (schema,rel_name,row_filter,col_list). But when the schema/rel_name
> are the same for 2 elements then (without also a pubid) how are you
> going to know where the list element came from, and how come that is
> not important?
>
> > > ~~
> > >
> > > test_pub=# create table t1(a int, b int, c int);
> > > CREATE TABLE
> > > test_pub=# create publication pub1 for table t1(a) where (a > 99);
> > > CREATE PUBLICATION
> > > test_pub=# create publication pub2 for table t1(a,b) where (b < 33);
> > > CREATE PUBLICATION
> > >
> > > Following seems OK when I swap orders of publication names...
> > >
> > > test_pub=# SELECT gpt.relid, gpt.attrs, pg_get_expr(gpt.qual,
> > > gpt.relid) AS rowfilter from pg_get_publication_tables(VARIADIC
> > > ARRAY['pub2','pub1']) gpt(relid, attrs, qual);
> > > relid | attrs | rowfilter
> > > -------+-------+-----------
> > > 16385 | 1 2 | (b < 33)
> > > 16385 | 1 | (a > 99)
> > > (2 rows)
> > >
> > > test_pub=# SELECT gpt.relid, gpt.attrs, pg_get_expr(gpt.qual,
> > > gpt.relid) AS rowfilter from pg_get_publication_tables(VARIADIC
> > > ARRAY['pub1','pub2']) gpt(relid, attrs, qual);
> > > relid | attrs | rowfilter
> > > -------+-------+-----------
> > > 16385 | 1 | (a > 99)
> > > 16385 | 1 2 | (b < 33)
> > > (2 rows)
> > >
> > > But what about this (this is similar to the SQL fragment from
> > > fetch_table_list); I swapped the pub names but the results are the
> > > same...
> > >
> > > test_pub=# SELECT pg_get_publication_tables(VARIADIC
> > > array_agg(p.pubname)) from pg_publication p where pubname
> > > IN('pub2','pub1');
> > >
> > > pg_get_publication_tables
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > (16385,1,"{OPEXPR :opno 521 :opfuncid 147 :opresulttype 16 :opretset
> > > false :opcollid 0 :inputcollid 0 :args ({VAR :varno 1 :varattno 1
> > > :vartype 23 :vartypmod -1 :var
> > > collid 0 :varlevelsup 0 :varnosyn 1 :varattnosyn 1 :location 47}
> > > {CONST :consttype 23 :consttypmod -1 :constcollid 0 :constlen 4
> > > :constbyval true :constisnull false :
> > > location 51 :constvalue 4 [ 99 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ]}) :location 49}")
> > > (16385,"1 2","{OPEXPR :opno 97 :opfuncid 66 :opresulttype 16
> > > :opretset false :opcollid 0 :inputcollid 0 :args ({VAR :varno 1
> > > :varattno 2 :vartype 23 :vartypmod -1 :v
> > > arcollid 0 :varlevelsup 0 :varnosyn 1 :varattnosyn 2 :location 49}
> > > {CONST :consttype 23 :consttypmod -1 :constcollid 0 :constlen 4
> > > :constbyval true :constisnull false
> > > :location 53 :constvalue 4 [ 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ]}) :location 51}")
> > > (2 rows)
> > >
> > > test_pub=# SELECT pg_get_publication_tables(VARIADIC
> > > array_agg(p.pubname)) from pg_publication p where pubname
> > > IN('pub1','pub2');
> > >
> > > pg_get_publication_tables
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > (16385,1,"{OPEXPR :opno 521 :opfuncid 147 :opresulttype 16 :opretset
> > > false :opcollid 0 :inputcollid 0 :args ({VAR :varno 1 :varattno 1
> > > :vartype 23 :vartypmod -1 :var
> > > collid 0 :varlevelsup 0 :varnosyn 1 :varattnosyn 1 :location 47}
> > > {CONST :consttype 23 :consttypmod -1 :constcollid 0 :constlen 4
> > > :constbyval true :constisnull false :
> > > location 51 :constvalue 4 [ 99 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ]}) :location 49}")
> > > (16385,"1 2","{OPEXPR :opno 97 :opfuncid 66 :opresulttype 16
> > > :opretset false :opcollid 0 :inputcollid 0 :args ({VAR :varno 1
> > > :varattno 2 :vartype 23 :vartypmod -1 :v
> > > arcollid 0 :varlevelsup 0 :varnosyn 1 :varattnosyn 2 :location 49}
> > > {CONST :consttype 23 :consttypmod -1 :constcollid 0 :constlen 4
> > > :constbyval true :constisnull false
> > > :location 53 :constvalue 4 [ 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ]}) :location 51}")
> > > (2 rows)
> >
> > I think this is because the usage of SELECT statement. The order seems
> depend
> > on pg_publication. Such as:
> >
> > postgres=# SELECT array_agg(p.pubname) FROM pg_publication p WHERE
> pubname IN ('pub1','pub2');
> > array_agg
> > -------------
> > {pub1,pub2}
> > (1 row)
> >
> > postgres=# SELECT array_agg(p.pubname) FROM pg_publication p WHERE
> pubname IN ('pub2','pub1');
> > array_agg
> > -------------
> > {pub1,pub2}
> > (1 row)
> >
>
> Right, so I felt it was a bit dubious that the result of the function
> “seems to depend on” something. That’s why I was asking why the list
> elements did not include a pubid. Then a caller could be certain what
> element belonged with what publication. It's not quite clear to me why
> that is not important for this patch - but anyway, even if it's not
> necessary for this patch's usage, this is a function that is exposed
> to users who might have different needs/expectations than this patch
> has, so shouldn't the result be less fuzzy for them?

Yes, I agree that there may be such a need in the future. Added 'pubid' to the
output of this function.
BTW, I think the usage of the function pg_get_publication_tables is not
documented in the pg-doc now, it doesn't seem to be a function provided to
users. So I didn't modify the documentation.

Attach new patches.

Regards,
Wang wei