Re: Improve errhint for ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ADD/DROP PUBLICATION

On 2022-Oct-17, Peter Smith wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 6:43 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:

> > I'm not sure that ERRCODE_SYNTAX_ERROR is the right thing here; sounds
> > like ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED might be more appropriate.
>
> I thought maybe ERRCODE_OBJECT_NOT_IN_PREREQUISITE_STATE, which would
> make it the same as similar messages in the same function when
> incompatible parameters are specified.

Hmm, yeah, I guess that's also a possibility.

Maybe we need a specific errcode, "incompatible logical replication
configuration", within that class ("object not in prerequisite state" is
a generic SQLSTATE class 55), given that the class itself is a mishmash
of completely unrelated things. I think I already mentioned this in
some other thread ... ah yes:

https://postgr.es/m/20220928084641.xecjrgym476fihtn@alvherre.pgsql
"incompatible publication definition" 55PR1 is what I suggested then.

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