fluent-plugin-pg-logical

Overview

Fluentd input plugin to track of changes (insert/update/delete) event on PostgreSQL using logical decoding.

This plugin works as a WAL receiver of PostgreSQL and requires installation of logical decoding plugin to upstream PostgreSQL server.

Installation

install with gem or fluent-gem command as:

# for system installed fluentd
$ gem install fluent-plugin-pg-logical

Configuration

Parameter	Type	Default	Remarks
host	string	'localhost'	-
port	integer	5432	-
user	string	'postgres'	-
password	string	nil	-
dbname	string	'postgres'	-
slotname	string	nil	Required
plugin	string	nil	Required if 'create_slot' is specified
status_interval	integer	10	Specifies the minimum frequency to send information about replication progress to upstream server
tag	string	nil	-
create_slot	bool	false	Specify to create the specified replication slot before start
if_not_exists	bool	false	Do not error if slot already exists when creating a slot

Restriction

• Because logical decoding support only data changes (i.g. INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE), other changes such as DDL, sequence doesn't appear on fluentd input
• Replication slots are reuiqred as much as you connect with fluent-plugin-pg-logical

Example with wal2json

fluent-plugin-pg-logical requires a logical decoding plugin to get logical change set.This is a example of use of fluent-plugin-pg-logical with wal2json, which decodes WAL to json object.

1. Install wal2json to PostgreSQL

Please refer to "Build and Install" section in wal2json documentation.

2. Setting Configuration Parameters

$ vi /path/to/fluent.conf
# Configuration for fluent-plugin-pg-logical
<source>
  @type pg_logical
  host pgserver
  port 5432
  user postgres
  dbname replication_db
  slotname wal2json_slot
  plugin wal2json
  create_slot true
  if_not_exists true
  tag pglogical
</source>

# Configuration for test output
<match pglogical>
  @type stdout
</match>

3. Run fluentd

4. Issue some SQL on PostgreSQl

=# CREATE TABLE hoge (c int primary key);
CREATE TABLE
=#INSERT INTO hoge VALUES (1), (2), (3);
INSERT 0 3
=# BEGIN;
BEGIN
=# UPDATE hoge SET c = c + 10 WHERE c = 1;
UPDATE 1
=# UPDATE hoge SET c = c + 20 WHERE c = 2;
UPDATE 1
=# COMMIT;
COMMIT

You will get,

2018-02-03 16:02:20.073058428 +0900 : "{\"change\":[]}"
2018-02-03 16:02:38.266394490 +0900 : "{\"change\":[{\"kind\":\"insert\",\"schema\":\"public\",\"table\":\"hoge\",\"columnnames\":[\"c\"],\"columntypes\":[\"integer\"],\"columnvalues\":[1]},{\"kind\":\"insert\",\"schema\":\"public\",\"table\":\"hoge\",\"columnnames\":[\"c\"],\"columntypes\":[\"integer\"],\"columnvalues\":[2]},{\"kind\":\"insert\",\"schema\":\"public\",\"table\":\"hoge\",\"columnnames\":[\"c\"],\"columntypes\":[\"integer\"],\"columnvalues\":[3]}]}"
2018-02-03 16:03:05.890485185 +0900 : "{\"change\":[{\"kind\":\"update\",\"schema\":\"public\",\"table\":\"hoge\",\"columnnames\":[\"c\"],\"columntypes\":[\"integer\"],\"columnvalues\":[11],\"oldkeys\":{\"keynames\":[\"c\"],\"keytypes\":[\"integer\"],\"keyvalues\":[1]}},{\"kind\":\"update\",\"schema\":\"public\",\"table\":\"hoge\",\"columnnames\":[\"c\"],\"columntypes\":[\"integer\"],\"columnvalues\":[22],\"oldkeys\":{\"keynames\":[\"c\"],\"keytypes\":[\"integer\"],\"keyvalues\":[2]}}]}"

Because current (at least up to version 10) PostgreSQL doesn't support DDL replication, CREATE TABLE command doesn't appear to fluentd input.

You can also monitor the activity of fluent-plugin-pg-logical on upstream server.

=# SELECT usename, application_name, sent_location, write_location, flush_location FROM pg_stat_replication ;

 usename  | application_name | sent_location | write_location | flush_location 
----------+------------------+---------------+----------------+----------------
 masahiko | pg-logical       | 0/15ADD70     | 0/15ADAC8      | 0/15ADAC8
(1 row)

Tested platforms

• PostgreSQL 10.X
• fluentd 1.1.0

TODO

• Add travis test
• Table filtering

Copyright

Copyright © 2018- Masahiko Sawada

License

Apache License, Version 2.0