Re: logical decoding and replication of sequences, take 2

On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 7:56 PM Tomas Vondra
<tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > But whether or not that's the case, downstream should not request (and
> > hence receive) any changes that have been already applied (and
> > committed) downstream as a principle. I think a way to achieve this is
> > to update the replorigin_session_origin_lsn so that a sequence change
> > applied once is not requested (and hence sent) again.
> >
>
> I guess we could update the origin, per attached 0004. We don't have
> timestamp to set replorigin_session_origin_timestamp, but it seems we
> don't need that.
>
> The attached patch merges the earlier improvements, except for the part
> that experimented with adding a "fake" transaction (which turned out to
> have a number of difficult issues).

0004 looks good to me. But I need to review the impact of not setting
replorigin_session_origin_timestamp.

What fake transaction experiment are you talking about?

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