RE: Force streaming every change in logical decoding

Dear Amit,

> The other possibility to achieve what you are saying is that we allow
> a minimum value of logical_decoding_work_mem as 0 which would mean
> stream or serialize each change depending on whether the streaming
> option is enabled.

I understood that logical_decoding_work_mem may double as normal option as
developer option. I think yours is smarter because we can reduce # of GUCs.

> I think we normally don't allow a minimum value
> below a certain threshold for other *_work_mem parameters (like
> maintenance_work_mem, work_mem), so we have followed the same here.
> And, I think it makes sense from the user's perspective because below
> a certain threshold it will just add overhead by either writing small
> changes to the disk or by sending those over the network. However, it
> can be quite useful for testing/debugging. So, not sure, if we should
> restrict setting logical_decoding_work_mem below a certain threshold.
> What do you think?

You mean to say that there is a possibility that users may set a small value without deep
considerations, right? If so, how about using the approach like autovacuum_work_mem?

autovacuum_work_mem has a range [-1, MAX_KIROBYTES], and -1 mean that it follows
maintenance_work_mem. If it is set small value like 5KB, its working memory is rounded
up to 1024KB. See check_autovacuum_work_mem().

Based on that, I suggest followings. Can they solve the problem what you said?

* If logical_decoding_work_mem is set to 0, all transactions are streamed or serialized
on publisher.
* If logical_decoding_work_mem is set within [1, 63KB], the value is rounded up or ERROR
is raised.
* If logical_decoding_work_mem is set greater than or equal to 64KB, the set value
is used.

Best Regards,
Hayato Kuroda
FUJITSU LIMITED
> Amit Kapila.