Re: Skipping logical replication transactions on subscriber side

From: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: Skipping logical replication transactions on subscriber side
Date: 2022-01-25 15:08:34
Message-ID: CAD21AoBoMaCMTga7LYN7JEvhBs_gBqa8RLgxM3GBMxRn6f+8qA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 11:58 PM David G. Johnston
<david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 7:47 AM Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, I think it's a good idea to clear the subskipxid after the first
>> transaction regardless of whether the worker skipped it.
>>
>
> So basically instead of stopping the worker with an error you suggest having the worker continue applying changes (after resetting subskipxid, and - arguably - the ?_error_* fields). Log the transaction xid mis-match as a warning in the log file as opposed to an error.

Agreed, I think it's better to log a warning than to raise an error.
In the case where the user specified the wrong XID, the worker should
fail again due to the same error.

Regards,

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Masahiko Sawada
EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com/

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