logical replication issue

From: Mike L <giantmetfan(at)comcast(dot)net>
To: Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: logical replication issue
Date: 2025-04-17 14:06:24
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I am upgrading our existing 12.22 Aurora Postgresql clusters to 16.8
using:https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/AuroraPostgreSQL.MajorVersionUpgrade.html
I have created a pub sub replication with a slot per database. I
originally created 1 publication for each database for all tables. Due
to this appeared issue, I have changed that method to creating 1
publication per schema. This allows limiting a smaller set of tables
from the subscription.
Either way getting errors:
2025-04-16 18:47:11 UTC::@:[1633]:LOG: logical replication apply worker
for subscription "clone_rep_slot_cdc_only_sub" has started
2025-04-16 18:47:12 UTC::@:[1633]:ERROR: could not identify an equality
operator for type xml
2025-04-16 18:47:12 UTC::@:[1633]:CONTEXT: processing remote data for
replication origin "pg_2141834" during message type "UPDATE" for
replication target relation "sde.gdb_items" in transaction 151772192,
finished at 0/61601498
2025-04-16 18:47:12 UTC::@:[569]:LOG: background worker "logical
replication worker" (PID 1633) exited with exit code 1

 It appears to be failing on the gdb_items table because there are
columns of datatype xml. The only way I could get this to run was to
exclude tables from the sde schema with datatype xml in the schema
publication. Or remove the entire schema publication from the
subscription. Once I remove the table(s) in question the slot becomes
active.

Is this an undocumented limitation? I cannot find this limitation
anywhere, in aws
docs:https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/blue-green-deployments-considerations.html#blue-green-deployments-limitations-postgres-logical
Nor in Postgresql version
16:https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/logical-replication-restrictions.html

Should logical replication fail due to a column of type 'xml' in a table
in a publication?

I assume this issue in replication is related to this excerpt from docs:
8.13.3. Accessing XML Values
The|xml| data type is unusual in that it does not provide any comparison
operators. This is because there is no well-defined and universally
useful comparison algorithm for XML data.  ...

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