Re: Column Filtering in Logical Replication

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Rahila Syed <rahilasyed90(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(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: 2021-09-04 14:41:04
Message-ID: 202109041441.gyqpsvi44fff@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2021-Sep-04, Amit Kapila wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 2:19 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
> >
> > On 2021-Sep-02, Rahila Syed wrote:
> >
> > > After thinking about this, I think it is best to remove the entire table
> > > from publication,
> > > if a column specified in the column filter is dropped from the table.
> >
> > Hmm, I think it would be cleanest to give responsibility to the user: if
> > the column to be dropped is in the filter, then raise an error, aborting
> > the drop.
>
> Do you think that will make sense if the user used Cascade (Alter
> Table ... Drop Column ... Cascade)?

... ugh. Since CASCADE is already defined to be a potentially-data-loss
operation, then that may be acceptable behavior. For sure the default
RESTRICT behavior shouldn't do it, though.

--
Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/

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