Re: pglogical most basic setup for logical replication

>
> It sounds like you must be running on PostgreSQL 9.4.

Indeed I am on PostgreSQL 9.4, I omitted this important point.

You'll need to drop the subscriber database and re-create it. Use a new
> node name.

Seems to work but I still do not really understand what was wrong in the
first place though.
Thanks for your help Craig !

*Sébastien DIEMER*
*Polyconseil* | 26 rue de Berri, 75008 Paris

2016-01-26 11:22 GMT+01:00 Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:

> On 26 January 2016 at 18:14, Sebastien Diemer <
> sebastien(dot)diemer(at)polyconseil(dot)fr> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I did not manage to make the simplest logical replication scheme work
>> with pglogical.
>> My setup is the following: two postgresql nodes (one provider and one
>> subscriber) with one database and one simple table:
>> `CREATE TABLE t (c1 integer, PRIMARY KEY (c1));`
>>
>> I followed the README provided with pglogical source code without any
>> success.
>> I created the provider and the subscriber nodes without problem but then,
>> after sending the sql query `SELECT
>> pglogical.create_subscription('subscription1', 'host=localhost port=55432
>> dbname=postgres');` I got:
>>
>> "ERROR: pglogical_origin extension not found"
>>
>
> It sounds like you must be running on PostgreSQL 9.4.
>
> 9.5 was the primary target for pglogical. Replicating from 9.4 to 9.4 was
> added quite late in the process. It seems we left out some key information
> from the documentation there.
>
>
>> "ERROR: subscriber subscription1 initialization failed during
>> nonrecoverable step (s), please try the setup again"
>>
>> I tried to replay the setup again without any success.
>>
>
> You'll need to drop the subscriber database and re-create it. Use a new
> node name.
>
> --
> Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
> PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
>