Re: Handle infinite recursion in logical replication setup

On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 6:52 PM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 1:32 PM Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 3:27 PM shiy(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com
> > <shiy(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 1:22 PM vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the comments, the attached v41 patch has the changes for the
> > > > same.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for updating the patch.
> > >
> > > I wonder in the case that the publisher uses PG15 (or before), subscriber uses
> > > PG16, should we have this check (check if publication tables were also
> > > subscribing from other publishers)? In this case, even if origin=none is
> > > specified, it doesn't work because the publisher doesn't filter the origin. So
> > > maybe we don't need the check for initial sync. Thoughts?
> > >
> >
> > IIUC for the scenario you've described (subscription origin=none and
> > publisher < PG16) the subscriber can end up getting extra data they
> > did not want, right?
> >
>
> Yes, because publishers won't have 'filtering based on origin' functionality.
>
> > So instead of just "don't need the check", maybe this combination
> > should throw ERROR, or at least a log a WARNING?
> >
>
> I am not sure if doing anything (ERROR or WARNING) would make sense
> because anyway later during replication there won't be any filtering.
>

I was suggesting stopping that replication from happening at all. If
the user specifically asked for 'origin=none' but the publisher could
not filter that (because < PG16) then I imagined some logic that would
just disable the subscription up-front. Isn't it preferable for the
subscriber to get no data at all then to get data the user
specifically said they did NOT want to get?

e.g. pseudo-code for the worker code something like below:

if (origin != ANY and publisher.server_version < PG16)
{
set subscription.option.disable_on_error = true;
throw ERROR ("publisher does not support origin=none - disabling
the subscription");
}

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Kind Regards,
Peter Smith.
Fujitsu Australia.