Is there documentation for how change data capture...
# help-connector-development
t
Is there documentation for how change data capture is represented inside airbyte protocol? I can’t find it after searching everywhere
r
what do you mean by change data capture? edit: i got it https://docs.airbyte.com/understanding-airbyte/cdc/
a
This article on CDC replication shows how the data is represented as JSON. Have a look for
_airbyte_data
to see the JSON objects that are created by the protocol for the given example.
t
Interesting. What does the “lsn “ in _ab_cdc_lsn stand for?
And is it possible for the underscored fields to conflict with field in source data if they happen to be called “_ab_cdc_lsn”?
As an example
s
lsn = log sequence number
t
Gotcha. Are conflicts possible between reserved fields and source data?
s
nope shouldn’t be