Re: Logical Replication of sequences

On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 at 14:34, Shlok Kyal <shlok(dot)kyal(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > While working on another thread, I found that in HEAD gram.y has
> > grammar which was committed as part of this thread:
> > ```
> > | CREATE PUBLICATION name FOR pub_obj_type_list opt_definition
> > {
> > CreatePublicationStmt *n = makeNode(CreatePublicationStmt);
> >
> > n->pubname = $3;
> > n->pubobjects = (List *) $5;
> > preprocess_pub_all_objtype_list($5, &n->for_all_tables,
> > &n->for_all_sequences,
> > yyscanner);
> > n->options = $6;
> > $$ = (Node *) n;
> > }
> > ```
> >
> > Here we are assigning "n->pubobjects = (List *) $5". But later in the
> > code this is not used anywhere for ALL TABLES/ ALL SEQUENCES
> > publication. It is used for other publications (not ALL TABLES/
> > SEQUENCES) inside function "ObjectsInPublicationToOids"
> >
> > So are we required to assign "n->pubobjects" here?
> >
> > I have created a patch to remove this assignment. It passed "make check-world".
>
> I agree that this is not required for ALL TABLES/ALL SEQUENCES cases.
>

I also agree. BTW, can we change pub_obj_type_list to
pub_all_obj_type_list to be more explicit about this variant? If you
agree then we can make similar changes
(pub_obj_type->pub_all_obj_type) at the following places as well:

+ * CREATE PUBLICATION FOR ALL pub_obj_type [, ...] [WITH options]
+ *
+ * pub_obj_type is one of:
+ *

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.