Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> writes:
> On 8/3/22 08:09, Kevin Martin wrote:
>> I thought that any UPDATE message in the replication logs is designed to
>> include all values for all columns. Is that correct?
Buried deep in the wire protocol specification is this bit:
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The following message parts are shared by the above messages.
TupleData
Int16
Number of columns.
Next, one of the following submessages appears for each column (except generated columns):
...
Byte1('u')
Identifies unchanged TOASTed value (the actual value is not sent).
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So that right there is two cases where we omit data for a column.
I suspect the "unchanged toasted data" case is what matters for
your purposes. Maybe you've found some code that fails to implement
that correctly?
regards, tom lane