Re: Question Regarding Publication Membership and Inheritance

On Tue, Mar 3, 2026 at 11:08 AM David G. Johnston
<david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Monday, March 2, 2026, shveta malik <shveta(dot)malik(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> This is different from how partitioned tables behave. In the case of
>> partitioned tables, adding or removing a partition automatically
>> includes or excludes it from the publication.
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>> However, I would like to get feedback from others. Does this look like
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>> a bug, or is this the intended behavior?
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> It’s defacto intended at this point.
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Thanks for your feedback. That was my initial understanding as well.

>> Should we update the documentation to briefly mention that changes in
>> the inheritance tree are not reflected in the publication after its
>> creation unless done manually? Or is there a better approach?
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> There is no bug in the existing documentation which corroborates this being the intended design. The commentary pertaining to ONLY says what this does and never communicates that future inherit-based interactions come into play. We tend not to describe things that don’t happen, and the lack of reported user confusion doesn’t support making an exception here.

Okay, I see your point.

> But a concrete suggestion could be considered.
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We could consider leaving it as is, given that we haven’t received any
user feedback suggesting a need to modify the documentation.

thanks
Shveta