Re: Pglogical 2.3.0 in AWS RDS 12.2

On 6/1/20 3:33 PM, Jeremy Schneider wrote:
> On 6/1/20 09:39, Igor Polishchuk wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>> Has anybody succeeded with using pglogical in AWS Postgresql 12.2?
>> They have pglogical v2.3.0, and it has this
>> issue https://github.com/2ndQuadrant/pglogical/issues/240, which was
>> fixed in the 2.3.1.
>> However, one cannot upgrade pglogical to 2.3.1 in RDS. Just curious if
>> somebody found a work around. Otherwise, it seems unusable with RDS
>> v12.2 right now.
>
> When I can, I usually encourage people to report RDS specific issues on
> the AWS forums; the postgresql.org mailing lists are most suited for
> questions that are not RDS-specific but apply to PostgreSQL in general.
>
> https://forums.aws.amazon.com/forum.jspa?forumID=60
>
> That said - AWS is aware of this issue. Extension updates on RDS are
> coupled with minor releases (typically coming every three months from
> postgresql.org) so just keep checking the future new minor releases on
> RDS until you see something. And if you don't have a support agreement
> with AWS then make noise on the forums, product managers do read them. :)

Seems supporting bug releases is not something that should require
making noise. The user is locked out of applying the fix themselves and
your response is to keep them stuck on a version with known issues. We
have different ideas of customer service.

>
> The pgLogical extension is published and maintained by 2ndQuadrant. It
> seems to me that a good place to discuss whether any temporary
> workaround exists might be right on the github issue itself even though
> it's closed. (Does 2ndQuadrant have any email lists or forums?) I
> haven't looked at this issue so I don't know if there's any workaround
> that could be used with 2.3.0 on RDS. I also don't know much about
> 2ndQuadrant's support agreements/offerings, and whether there's
> something there that could give general advice about the open source
> pgLogical extension.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Jeremy
>

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