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From: Tatsuo Ishii <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Proposal: Recent mutated table tracking in memory
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:23:43 +0900 (JST)
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From: Tatsuo Ishii <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Proposal: Recent mutated table tracking in memory
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:43:53 +0900 (JST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

> Hi Nadav,
> 
> Thank you for updating the patch!
> 
>> Thank you for the comments!
>> 
>> I agree with all of them. Let me know what you think of the changes and new
>> naming.
> 
> I still think "memory_map" is too generic. Anything put on memory for
> data mapping could be called "memory map". I recommend to change the
> name to more feature specific one: What about replacing "memory_map"
> with "track_table_mutation"? It's a little bit longer name but it
> clearly represents the feature. Any better ideas are welcome.
> 
> - memory_map_enabled: Enable/disable the feature (default: off)
> - memory_map_ttl_factor: TTL multiplier for replication delay (default: 5.0)
> - memory_map_cold_start_duration: Cold start period in ms (default: 2000)
> - memory_map_table_buckets: Hash buckets for table map (default: 1024)
> - memory_map_table_size: Max tracked tables (default: 2048)
> - memory_map_query_buckets: Hash buckets for query cache (default: 2048)
> - memory_map_query_cache_size: Max cached queries (default: 10000)
> 
> Also I feel memory_map_query_cache_size is confusing because there's
> already "query cache" feature in pgpool.  Can we change it something
> like "query_parse_cache_size"?
> 
> Review comments:
> 
> (1) Why the regression test is 45? Shouldn't it be 42? (the last
> feature test is 041.external_replication_delay).
> 
> (2) You enhance the patch to deal with leader watch changing. That's
> good. However, I don't see a test case for it in test.sh.
> 
> (3) It seems the patch does not support TRUNCATE, MERGE, PREPARE and
> WITH + updating. If so, it should be noted in the docs as a limitation
> of the feature.

(4) It seems the patch does not consider transactions. If an UPDATE is
performed in a transaction and the transaction gets rollbacked, load
balance is disabled despite that fact that the table modification did
not happen.

Best regards,
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS K.K.
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