Re: Handle infinite recursion in logical replication setup

From: Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "shiy(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <shiy(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com>
Cc: vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, "kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Handle infinite recursion in logical replication setup
Date: 2022-08-01 08:02:21
Message-ID: CAHut+PtinkWsPPA8RN2jWTuhTSYj0sbRT9A7_ZeM0ezKNNSa6g@mail.gmail.com
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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?

So instead of just "don't need the check", maybe this combination
should throw ERROR, or at least a log a WARNING?

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KInd Regards,
Peter Smith.
Fujitsu Australia

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