Re: logicalrep_message_type throws an error

On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 4:26 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On 2023-Jul-05, Amit Kapila wrote:
>
> > I think after returning "???" from logicalrep_message_type(), the
> > above is possible when we get the error: "invalid logical replication
> > message type "X"" from apply_dispatch(), right? If so, then what about
> > the case when we forgot to handle some message in
> > logicalrep_message_type() but handled it in apply_dispatch()? Isn't it
> > better to return the 'action' from the function
> > logicalrep_message_type() for unknown type? That way the information
> > could be a bit better and we can easily catch the code bug as well.
>
> Are you suggesting that logicalrep_message_type should include the
> numerical value of 'action' in the ??? message? Something like this:
>
> ERROR: invalid logical replication message type "X"
> CONTEXT: processing remote data for replication origin "pg_16638" during message type "??? (123)" in transaction 796, finished at 0/16266F8
>

Yes, something like that would be better.

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.