[Bucardo-general] How does Bucardo 5.x handles DELETES?

[Raghu Udiyar]

Ok - I will check the sync then. Thanks.

On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 7:44 PM David Christensen <david at endpoint.com> wrote:

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> On Apr 6, 2018, at 3:10 AM, Raghu Udiyar <raghu at helpshift.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> We are seeing that row deletes are not being propagated to the target PG
> db. This is a PG one way sync using Bucardo 5.4.1
> (using quick_delta_check=0).
>
> In Bucardo logs we always see *deletes=0*, but deletes are happening on
> the table in question.
>
> I was trying to figure out how deletes are handled in Bucardo. I can see
> the DELETE trigger adds the OLD values to the corresponding delta table,
> but the table does not have any field to indicate if this is a DELETE or
> not. The same is done for INSERT albeit using the NEW values. Only thing
> added is the *txntime*. Is this used to implicitly delete records as a
> side effect of an row insert/update ?
>
> Thanks
> Raghu
>
>
> Hi Raghu,
>
> DELETEs are noted as a delta row with no corresponding row in the table;
> basically any row which is modified stores the PK and the transaction
> time.  INSERTs/UPDATEs are handled the same way; effectively Bucardo will
> delete any keys on the target with PKs in the delta tables, then copy any
> data from the original table with the same keys.  In the case of DELETEs,
> those will not exist, so the row is effectively deleted.
>
> Have you verified that INSERTs and UPDATEs are working on the target?  I’m
> a little curious why it would just affect DELETEs and not the other types,
> so I’d first verify that the sync is working at all.
>
> Best,
>
> David
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