Re: Logical replication subscription owner

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: chris+postgresql(at)qwirx(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Logical replication subscription owner
Date: 2020-04-22 17:40:29
Message-ID: 20200422174029.GA17052@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2020-Apr-15, PG Doc comments form wrote:

> If the logical replication subscription is owned by a role that is not
> allowed to login (for example, if the LOGIN privilege is removed after the
> subscription is created) then the logical replication worker (which uses the
> owner to connect to the database) will start to fail with this error
> (repeated every 5 seconds), which is pretty much undocumented:
>
> FATAL: role "XXX" is not permitted to log in
> LOG: background worker "logical replication worker" (PID X) exited with
> exit code 1
>
> You might want to include that error message in the docs, to ensure that web
> searches for it bring the user to this documentation.

I wonder if a better answer is to allow the connection when the
REPLICATION priv is granted, ignoring the LOGIN prov.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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