Re: Create publication syntax is not coming properly in pg_dump / pg_dumpall

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 5:04 PM, tushar <tushar(dot)ahuja(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I observed that in pg_dump/pg_dumpall - 'create publication' syntax is not
> coming properly if only specified value is mentioned in publish.
>
> Testcase to reproduce -
>
> \\create a publication
>
> postgres=# CREATE PUBLICATION abc for all tables with (publish='insert');
> CREATE PUBLICATION
>
> \\take the plain dump
>
> [centos(at)centos-cpula bin]$ ./pg_dump -FP -p 5000 postgres > /tmp/a.a
>
> \\check the syntax
>
> [centos(at)centos-cpula bin]$ cat /tmp/a.a |grep 'create publication abc' -i
> CREATE PUBLICATION abc FOR ALL TABLES WITH (publish = 'insert, , ');
>
> \\try to execute the same syntax against psql terminal
>
> postgres=# CREATE PUBLICATION abc FOR ALL TABLES WITH (publish = 'insert, ,
> ');
> ERROR: invalid publish list
>
> Same is valid for pg_dumpall as well..
>

Thank you for reporting.

Hm, It's a bug of pg_dump. Attached patch should fix both pg_dump and
pg_dumpall.

Regards,

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Masahiko Sawada
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center