Normalization in Postgres destination does not perform well, incremental run is too slow

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  • Is this your first time deploying Airbyte?: No
  • OS Version / Instance: Ubuntu
  • Memory / Disk: 32GB / 1 TB
  • Deployment: Docker
  • Airbyte Version: 0.40.26
  • Source name/version: Postgres 1.0.34
  • Destination name/version: Postgres 0.3.26
  • Step: The issue is happening during sync in normalization phase
  • Description: 2nd run of incremental sync is terribly long for large tables because of Basic normalization

Hi,
we’ve got a problem with basic normalization after an incremental load on Postgres2Postgres sync (append incremental).
We’re loading quite large tables, around 150GB and 450 millions of rows, first sync lasts almost 24 hours and normalization takes a few hours of it. That’s expected.
But now, 2nd incremental load contains just 300.000 rows, Extract/Load is done within a minute, and normalization then freezes, not fininshing within a day!

I looked into the code and normalization SQL contains this condition:

and coalesce(
    cast(_airbyte_emitted_at as
    timestamp with time zone
) >= (select max(cast(_airbyte_emitted_at as
    timestamp with time zone
)) from "dwh_db".mining."reward"),
    true)

Is it possible that it is a bug and condition should filter only new records using ‘>’ ?
It seems to me that this code replicate all already synced rows to normalization again, causing repeated rework for our 450 GB of data.

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