On 2018-10-31 08:07:36 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 08:45:57AM +0100, Petr Jelinek wrote:
> > The receiver side *should* actually use RelationGetIndexAttrBitmap, the
> > problem there seems to be rather than we setup snapshot few lines of
> > code too late in worker.c.
>
> Does the worker need this much information though? It just needs to
> know about the replication index itself and its columns, not about all
> the other indexes. It may make sense to unify both code paths to behave
> similarly.
Replication needs to maintain the other indexes, and for that it needs
to evaluate predicates. So I don't understand how you could say that it
doesn't need to know about other indexes?
Greetings,
Andres Freund