pgsql: Tweak publication fetching in psql

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Tweak publication fetching in psql
Date: 2017-06-20 16:36:20
Message-ID: E1dNM8a-0001Dd-MB@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Tweak publication fetching in psql

Viewing a table with \d in psql also shows the publications at table is
in. If a publication is concurrently dropped, this shows an error,
because the view pg_publication_tables internally uses
pg_get_publication_tables(), which uses a catalog snapshot. This can be
particularly annoying if a for-all-tables publication is concurrently
dropped.

To avoid that, write the query in psql differently. Expose the function
pg_relation_is_publishable() to SQL and write the query using that.
That still has a risk of being affected by concurrent catalog changes,
but in this case it would be a table drop that causes problems, and then
the psql \d command wouldn't be interesting anymore anyway.

Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a2141c42f9ebc51b4501a4fafea9dd3fb7eda23d

Modified Files
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src/backend/catalog/pg_publication.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/bin/psql/describe.c | 14 +++++++++-----
src/include/catalog/catversion.h | 2 +-
src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h | 2 ++
4 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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