Re: Skipping schema changes in publication

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 8:45 AM vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 4:46 PM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > I understand that part but what I pointed out was that it might be
> > better to avoid using ADD keyword in this syntax like: ALTER
> > PUBLICATION pub1 SKIP TABLE t1,t2;
>
> Currently we are supporting Alter publication using the following syntax:
> ALTER PUBLICATION pub1 ADD TABLE t1;
> ALTER PUBLICATION pub1 SET TABLE t1;
> ALTER PUBLICATION pub1 DROP TABLE T1;
> ALTER PUBLICATION pub1 ADD ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA sch1;
> ALTER PUBLICATION pub1 SET ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA sch1;
> ALTER PUBLICATION pub1 DROP ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA sch1;
>
> I have extended the new syntax in similar lines:
> ALTER PUBLICATION pub1 ADD SKIP TABLE t1;
> ALTER PUBLICATION pub1 SET SKIP TABLE t1;
> ALTER PUBLICATION pub1 DROP SKIP TABLE T1;
>
> I did it like this to maintain consistency.
>

What is the difference between ADD and SET variants? I understand we
need some way to remove the SKIP table setting but not sure if DROP is
the best alternative.

The other ideas could be:
To set skip tables: ALTER PUBLICATION pub1 SKIP TABLE t1, t2...;
To reset skip tables: ALTER PUBLICATION pub1 SKIP TABLE; /* basically
an empty list*/
Yet another way to reset skip tables: ALTER PUBLICATION pub1 RESET
SKIP TABLE; /* Here we need to introduce RESET. */

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.