Re: Column Filtering in Logical Replication

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Rahila Syed <rahilasyed90(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Column Filtering in Logical Replication
Date: 2021-12-17 07:03:33
Message-ID: 1f1bee97-4a8e-c5a1-3b96-82d389b34480@enterprisedb.com
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On 17.12.21 05:47, Amit Kapila wrote:
> I think in the above sentence, you mean to say "dropped from the
> publication". So, IIUC, you are proposing that if one drops a column
> that was part of the column list of a relation in a publication, an
> error will be raised. Also, if the user specifies CASCADE in Alter
> Table ... Drop Column, then we drop the relation from publication. Is
> that right? BTW, this is somewhat on the lines of what row_filter
> patch is also doing where if the user drops the column that was part
> of row_filter for a relation in publication, we give an error and if
> the user tries to drop the column with CASCADE then the relation is
> removed from the publication.

That looks correct. Consider how triggers behave: Dropping a column
that a trigger uses (either in UPDATE OF or a WHEN condition) errors
with RESTRICT and drops the trigger with CASCADE.

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