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# Postgres Decoderbufs
A PostgreSQL logical decoder output plugin to deliver data as [Protocol Buffers](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers), adapted for Debezium
## Thanks to
- The original [Decoderbufs Project](https://github.com/xstevens/decoderbufs) on which this is based
- [The PostgreSQL Team](https://postgresql.org) for adding [logical decoding](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/logicaldecoding.html) support
## Dependencies
This code depends on the following libraries and requires them for compilation:
* [PostgreSQL](http://www.postgresql.org) 9.6+
* [Protobuf-c](https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c) 1.2+ - used for data serialization
## Building
`postgres-decoderbufs` has to be built from source after installing required dependencies. The required dependencies are first PostgreSQL
(for pg_config), PostgreSQL server development packages, and protobuf-c for the Protocol Buffer support.
### Installing Dependencies
#### Debian
# Core build utilities
apt-get update
apt-get install -f -y build-essential pkg-config git libprotobuf-c-dev postgresql-server-dev-all
When updating the ProtoBuf definition, also install the ProtoBuf C compiler:
apt-get install -y protobuf-c-compiler=1.2.*
The above are taken from the Debezium [container images](https://github.com/debezium/docker-images).
#### Other Linux distributions
You just need to make sure the above software packages (_or some flavour thereof_) are installed for your distro.
### Getting the source code
If you have all of the above prerequisites installed, clone this git repo to build from source:
git clone https://github.com/debezium/postgres-decoderbufs.git
cd postgres-decoderbufs
### Optional: Re-generating ProtoBuf code
This is only needed after changes to the ProtoBuf definition (_proto/pg_logicaldec.proto):
cd proto
protoc-c --c_out=../src/proto pg_logicaldec.proto
cd ..
Commit the generated files to git then.
### Building and installing decoderbufs
If you have multiple Postgres versions installed, you can select which version to install decoderbufs into by altering your `$PATH` to point to the right version.
Then `make` and `make install` for each version. Here is an example:
# Install for Postgres 9.6 if I have multiple local versions
export PATH=/usr/lib/postgresql/9.6/bin:$PATH
make
make install
Once the extension has been installed you just need to enable it and logical replication in postgresql.conf:
# MODULES
shared_preload_libraries = 'decoderbufs'
# REPLICATION
wal_level = logical # minimal, archive, hot_standby, or logical (change requires restart)
max_wal_senders = 8 # max number of walsender processes (change requires restart)
wal_keep_segments = 4 # in logfile segments, 16MB each; 0 disables
#wal_sender_timeout = 60s # in milliseconds; 0 disables
max_replication_slots = 4 # max number of replication slots (change requires restart)
In addition, permissions will have to be added for the user that connects to the DB to be able to replicate. This can be modified in _pg\_hba.conf_ like so:
local replication <youruser> trust
host replication <youruser> 127.0.0.1/32 trust
host replication <youruser> ::1/128 trust
And restart PostgreSQL.
## Usage
-- can use SQL for demo purposes
select * from pg_create_logical_replication_slot('decoderbufs_demo', 'decoderbufs');
-- DO SOME TABLE MODIFICATIONS (see below about UPDATE/DELETE)
-- peek at WAL changes using decoderbufs debug mode for SQL console
select data from pg_logical_slot_peek_changes('decoderbufs_demo', NULL, NULL, 'debug-mode', '1');
-- get WAL changes using decoderbufs to update the WAL position
select data from pg_logical_slot_get_changes('decoderbufs_demo', NULL, NULL, 'debug-mode', '1');
-- check the WAL position of logical replicators
select * from pg_replication_slots where slot_type = 'logical';
If you're performing an UPDATE/DELETE on your table and you don't see results for those operations from logical decoding, make sure you have set [REPLICA IDENTITY](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-altertable.html#SQL-CREATETABLE-REPLICA-IDENTITY) appropriately for your use case.
The binary format will be consumed by the Debezium Postgres Connector.
## Type Mappings
The following table shows how current PostgreSQL type OIDs are mapped to which decoderbuf fields:
| PostgreSQL Type OID | Decoderbuf Field |
|---------------------|---------------|
| BOOLOID | datum_boolean |
| INT2OID | datum_int32 |
| INT4OID | datum_int32 |
| INT8OID | datum_int64 |
| OIDOID | datum_int64 |
| FLOAT4OID | datum_float |
| FLOAT8OID | datum_double |
| NUMERICOID | datum_double |
| CHAROID | datum_string |
| VARCHAROID | datum_string |
| BPCHAROID | datum_string |
| TEXTOID | datum_string |
| JSONOID | datum_string |
| XMLOID | datum_string |
| UUIDOID | datum_string |
| TIMESTAMPOID | datum_string |
| TIMESTAMPTZOID | datum_string |
| BYTEAOID | datum_bytes |
| POINTOID | datum_point |
## Support
File bug reports and feature requests using [Debezium's JIRA](https://issues.jboss.org/browse/DBZ) and the
[postgresql-connector](https://issues.jboss.org/browse/DBZ/component/12323543) component