Re: First draft of the PG 15 release notes

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Euler Taveira <euler(at)eulerto(dot)com>
Cc: Ajin Cherian <itsajin(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: First draft of the PG 15 release notes
Date: 2022-05-12 14:22:17
Message-ID: Yn0YGa71P7ABzHoH@momjian.us
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On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 11:12:54AM -0300, Euler Taveira wrote:
OB> On Thu, May 12, 2022, at 11:03 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> I looked at that but thought that everyone would already assume we
> skipped replication of empty transactions, and I didn't see much impact
> for the user, so I didn't include it.
>
> It certainly has an impact on heavy workloads that replicate tables with few
> modifications. It receives a high traffic of 'begin' and 'commit' messages that
> the previous Postgres versions have to handle (discard). I would classify it as
> a performance improvement for logical replication. Don't have a strong opinion
> if it should be mentioned or not.

Oh, so your point is that a transaction that only has SELECT would
previously send an empty transaction? I thought this was only for apps
that create literal empty transactions, which seem rare.

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