diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/pg_publication.c b/src/backend/catalog/pg_publication.c
index b80c21e6ae..ae4a46e44a 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/pg_publication.c
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/pg_publication.c
@@ -359,6 +359,32 @@ GetPubPartitionOptionRelations(List *result, PublicationPartOpt pub_partopt,
 	return result;
 }
 
+Node *
+GetTransformedWhereClause(ParseState *pstate, PublicationRelInfo *pri,
+						  bool bfixupcollation)
+{
+	ParseNamespaceItem *nsitem;
+	Node       *transformedwhereclause = NULL;
+
+	pstate->p_sourcetext = nodeToString(pri->whereClause);
+
+	nsitem = addRangeTableEntryForRelation(pstate, pri->relation,
+											AccessShareLock,
+											NULL, false, false);
+	addNSItemToQuery(pstate, nsitem, false, true, true);
+
+	transformedwhereclause = transformWhereClause(pstate,
+												  copyObject(pri->whereClause),
+												  EXPR_KIND_PUBLICATION_WHERE,
+												  "PUBLICATION WHERE");
+
+	/* Fix up collation information */
+	if (bfixupcollation)
+		assign_expr_collations(pstate, transformedwhereclause);
+												
+	return transformedwhereclause;
+}
+
 /*
  * Insert new publication / relation mapping.
  */
@@ -377,7 +403,6 @@ publication_add_relation(Oid pubid, PublicationRelInfo *pri,
 	ObjectAddress myself,
 				referenced;
 	ParseState *pstate;
-	ParseNamespaceItem *nsitem;
 	Node       *whereclause = NULL;
 	List	   *relids = NIL;
 
@@ -408,20 +433,8 @@ publication_add_relation(Oid pubid, PublicationRelInfo *pri,
 	{
 		/* Set up a ParseState to parse with */
 		pstate = make_parsestate(NULL);
-		pstate->p_sourcetext = nodeToString(pri->whereClause);
-
-		nsitem = addRangeTableEntryForRelation(pstate, targetrel,
-											   AccessShareLock,
-											   NULL, false, false);
-		addNSItemToQuery(pstate, nsitem, false, true, true);
-
-		whereclause = transformWhereClause(pstate,
-										   copyObject(pri->whereClause),
-										   EXPR_KIND_PUBLICATION_WHERE,
-										   "PUBLICATION WHERE");
 
-		/* Fix up collation information */
-		assign_expr_collations(pstate, whereclause);
+		whereclause = GetTransformedWhereClause(pstate, pri, true);
 
 		/*
 		 * Walk the parse-tree of this publication row filter expression and
diff --git a/src/backend/commands/publicationcmds.c b/src/backend/commands/publicationcmds.c
index 1c792ed9cb..6106ec25d4 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/publicationcmds.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/publicationcmds.c
@@ -497,6 +497,7 @@ AlterPublicationTables(AlterPublicationStmt *stmt, HeapTuple tup,
 	List	   *rels = NIL;
 	Form_pg_publication pubform = (Form_pg_publication) GETSTRUCT(tup);
 	Oid			pubid = pubform->oid;
+	Node       *oldrelwhereclause = NULL;
 
 	/*
 	 * It is quite possible that for the SET case user has not specified any
@@ -554,8 +555,13 @@ AlterPublicationTables(AlterPublicationStmt *stmt, HeapTuple tup,
 									  ObjectIdGetDatum(pubid));
 			if (HeapTupleIsValid(rftuple))
 			{
-				SysCacheGetAttr(PUBLICATIONRELMAP, rftuple, Anum_pg_publication_rel_prqual,
-								&rfisnull);
+				Datum		whereClauseDatum;
+
+				whereClauseDatum = SysCacheGetAttr(PUBLICATIONRELMAP, rftuple, Anum_pg_publication_rel_prqual,
+												   &rfisnull);
+				if (!rfisnull)
+					oldrelwhereclause = stringToNode(TextDatumGetCString(whereClauseDatum));
+
 				ReleaseSysCache(rftuple);
 			}
 
@@ -569,11 +575,31 @@ AlterPublicationTables(AlterPublicationStmt *stmt, HeapTuple tup,
 				 * If the new relation or the old relation has a where clause,
 				 * we need to remove it so that it can be added afresh later.
 				 */
-				if (RelationGetRelid(newpubrel->relation) == oldrelid &&
-						newpubrel->whereClause == NULL && rfisnull)
+				if (RelationGetRelid(newpubrel->relation) == oldrelid)
 				{
-					found = true;
-					break;
+					if (rfisnull && !newpubrel->whereClause)
+					{
+						found = true;
+						break;
+					}
+
+					if (!rfisnull && newpubrel->whereClause)
+					{
+						ParseState *pstate = make_parsestate(NULL);
+						Node *whereclause;
+
+						whereclause = GetTransformedWhereClause(pstate,
+																newpubrel,
+																false);
+						if (equal(oldrelwhereclause, whereclause))
+						{
+							free_parsestate(pstate);
+							found = true;
+							break;
+						}
+
+						free_parsestate(pstate);
+					}
 				}
 			}
 
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_publication.h b/src/include/catalog/pg_publication.h
index f698049633..8c63dd5f85 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_publication.h
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_publication.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include "catalog/genbki.h"
 #include "catalog/objectaddress.h"
 #include "catalog/pg_publication_d.h"
+#include "parser/parse_node.h"
 
 /* ----------------
  *		pg_publication definition.  cpp turns this into
@@ -142,7 +143,9 @@ extern ObjectAddress publication_add_schema(Oid pubid, Oid schemaid,
 
 extern Oid	get_publication_oid(const char *pubname, bool missing_ok);
 extern char *get_publication_name(Oid pubid, bool missing_ok);
-
+extern Node *GetTransformedWhereClause(ParseState *pstate,
+									   PublicationRelInfo *pri,
+									   bool bfixupcollation);
 extern bool check_rowfilter_replident(Node *node, Bitmapset *bms_replident);
 
 #endif							/* PG_PUBLICATION_H */