Realtime queries - do they work on response.events or only on response.payload?

The current Realtime Queries docs are not very clear on the subject - when using queries to filter the subscription results, can we query on the response.events list or is the query applied only on the response.payload object?
All examples in the doc seem to use payload properties so it's not clear to me if I can filter by event.

https://appwrite.io/docs/apis/realtime/queries
https://appwrite.io/blog/post/announcing-realtime-queries

Hey, it's on the payload
But you can subscribe to the action channels as well

Yes, I am subscribing to Channel.tablesdb('<DATABASE_ID>').table('<TABLE_ID>').row() but only want to get notified on the databases.*.tables.*.rows.*.create, databases.*.tables.*.rows.*.update, and databases.*.tables.*.rows.*.upsert events. It seems I still need to filter those in the client code, cannot use a query for that.

lets try subscribing to this only Channel.tablesdb('sdf').table('df').row().create()

wow, I missed that I can do that. but does that mean I would need 3 separate subscriptions, i.e. 3 separate websocket connections?

no, its a subscription

If you are on cloud and using the new sdk, then Appwrite realtime works on a message based subscription and everything is incremental over a single socket

You can subscribe , unsubscribe, update to a subscribe and everything all on a single connection via message

I'm on self-hosted but I hope it works the same on self-hosted?

Ah okay then its going to give a bit of hunch cause these are all recently added and will be available on the next self-hosted release

then the best way is to use the manual filtering

you mean 1.9.1?

Not sure
You will be notified when released but yeah on the very next release

ok, thank you very much for your help!