Re: CREATE/ALTER PUBLICATION improvements for syntax synopsis

On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> > On Nov 25, 2025, at 18:42, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> >>> On Nov 21, 2025, at 05:08, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> >>> I've reverted the ALTER 'publication_drop_object' part to be the same
> >>> as master (i.e. removed the v6 'table' replacement) after Fujii-San
> >>> showed [1] that the original synopsis style is present on some other
> >>> documentation pages.
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> >>> PSS new patch v7.
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> > Thanks for updating the patch! LGTM.
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> > One question: do we want to backpatch this? If so, to which versions?
> > If we decide to backpatch, it would be helpful if you could provide versions
> > of the patch that apply cleanly to those older branches.
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> I just checked the docs version by version, looks like the back-port can go down to 15.
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Here are the back patches as requested. I hope they are OK.

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v8-PG19devel - same as v7.

v8-PG18 - same as above, except the CREATE 'publication_all_object' is
not needed because FOR ALL SEQUENCES did not exist

v8-PG17 - same as above

v8-PG16 - same as above

v8-PG15 - same as above

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Kind Regards,
Peter Smith.
Fujitsu Australia