Regression tests need to use skip-empty-xacts = false, because there
might be accidental concurrent activity (like autovacuum), particularly
on slow machines. The tests added by 80901b3291 failed to do that in a
couple places, triggering occasional failures on buildfarm.
Fixing the tests however uncovered a bug in the code, because sequence
callbacks did not handle skip-empty-xacts properly. For trasactional
increments we need to check/update the xact_wrote_changes flag, and emit
the BEGIN if it's the first change in the transaction.
Reported-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220212220413.b25amklo7t4xb7ni%40alap3.anarazel.de
Commit 0da92dc530 improved the logical decoding infrastructure to handle
sequences, and did various changes to related parts (WAL logging etc.).
But it did not include any implementation of the new callbacks added to
OutputPluginCallbacks.
This extends test_decoding with two callbacks to decode sequences. The
decoding of sequences may be disabled using 'include-sequences', a new
option of the output plugin.
Author: Tomas Vondra, Cary Huang
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Hannu Krosing, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d045f3c2-6cfb-06d3-5540-e63c320df8bc@enterprisedb.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1710ed7e13b.cd7177461430746.3372264562543607781@highgo.ca
Tomas Vondra