Re: Support ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... ADD/DROP PUBLICATION ... syntax

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 9:18 AM japin <japinli(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> Hi, hackers
>
> When I read the discussion in [1], I found that update subscription's publications
> is complicated.
>
> For example, I have 5 publications in subscription.
>
> CREATE SUBSCRIPTION mysub1 CONNECTION 'host=localhost port=5432 dbname=postgres'
> PUBLICATION mypub1, mypub2, mypub3, mypub4, mypub5;
>
> If I want to drop "mypub4", we should use the following command:
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> ALTER SUBSCRIPTION mysub1 SET PUBLICATION mypub1, mypub2, mypub3, mypub5;
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> Also, if I want to add "mypub7" and "mypub8", it will use:
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> ALTER SUBSCRIPTION mysub1 SET PUBLICATION mypub1, mypub2, mypub3, mypub5, mypub7, mypub8;
>
> Attached implement ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... ADD/DROP PUBLICATION ... syntax, for the above
> two cases, we can use the following:
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> ALTER SUBSCRIPTION mysub1 DROP PUBLICATION mypub4;
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> ALTER SUBSCRIPTION mysub1 DROP PUBLICATION mypub7, mypub8;
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> I think it's more convenient. Any thoughts?

+1 for the idea

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Dilip Kumar
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