Re: pg_createsubscriber --dry-run logging concerns

From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de>
To: Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Euler Taveira <euler(at)eulerto(dot)com>, "kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_createsubscriber --dry-run logging concerns
Date: 2025-10-08 10:04:04
Message-ID: 202510081001.zjytakz6rdh3@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2025-Oct-08, Peter Smith wrote:

> I am not wedded to doing this double-messaging... if people feel just
> the one-time logging at the beginning is enough, then that is OK by
> me.

Some other tools (not Postgres ones) do that and it always makes me
nervous, because I can never be sure which parts were actually done and
which parts are only dry-run trials. I'd rather stay away from that
approach.

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