Re: row filtering for logical replication

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 3:00 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
>
> I just looked at 0002 because of Justin Pryzby's comment in the column
> filtering thread, and realized that the pgoutput row filtering has a
> very strange API, which receives both heap tuples and slots; and we seem
> to convert to and from slots in seemingly unprincipled ways.  I don't
> think this is going to fly.  I think it's OK for the initial entry into
> pgoutput to be HeapTuple (but only because that's what
> ReorderBufferTupleBuf has), but it should be converted a slot right when
> it enters pgoutput, and then used as a slot throughout.
>

One another thing that we can improve about 0002 is to unify the APIs
for row filtering for update and insert/delete. I find having separate
APIs a bit awkward.

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.