Re: Distinguish publication exclusions in object addresses

On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 12:23 PM Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 4:46 PM Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > > On Sep 16, 2026, at 13:50, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> > > --
> > > With Regards,
> > > Amit Kapila.
> > > <v4-0001-Distinguish-publication-exclusions-in-object-addr.patch>
> >
> > V4 overall looks sold to me. Just a couple of small comments:
> >
> > 1
> > ```
> > -- No entry of either kind. testpub_default publishes nothing.
> > SELECT pg_get_object_address('publication excluded relation',
> > '{public, testpub_tbl1}', '{testpub_default}');
> > ERROR: publication relation "testpub_tbl1" in publication "testpub_default" does not exist
> > ```
> >
> > For this new test, the error message is a little surprising to me. Since the requested object type is "publication excluded relation", I would expect the error message to say something like:
> > ```
> > publication excluded relation "testpub_tbl1" in publication "testpub_default" does not exist
> > ```
>
> +1 this because maybe the reported table name really *does* exist and
> is part of the publication, even though the message is saying the
> exact opposite.
>

Can you share an example of such a case?

--
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.