pgsql: pg_createsubscriber: Fix duplicate publication name rejection.

From: Amit Kapila <akapila(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: pg_createsubscriber: Fix duplicate publication name rejection.
Date: 2026-06-08 06:56:37
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pg_createsubscriber: Fix duplicate publication name rejection.

pg_createsubscriber rejected duplicate --publication values while parsing
command-line options, even when the duplicate names referred to
publications in different databases. Since publication names are
database-local objects, the same name is perfectly valid across multiple
databases.

This restriction was not a practical problem before commit 85ddcc2f4c,
which added support for reusing pre-existing publications. After that
change, users who have identically-named publications in multiple
databases (a common convention) could not use the feature without renaming
their publications.

The analogous restriction on --subscription names is intentionally kept as
they are reused as replication slot names, which are cluster-global, so
allowing duplicate subscription names without additional guards could
cause a slot-name collision. That work is left for a future release.

Author: Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com>
Reviewed-by: Shlok Kyal <shlok(dot)kyal(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/B08A7C89-B3DE-4C1D-A671-32AD8BAB7E22@gmail.com

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6ce035ffff444479e63ea6276d56e33cc8b991d9

Modified Files
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src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_createsubscriber.c | 9 ++-------
src/bin/pg_basebackup/t/040_pg_createsubscriber.pl | 19 ++++---------------
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

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