Re: Added schema level support for publication.

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 2:00 PM Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 12:08 AM vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 12:00 PM tanghy(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com
> > <tanghy(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Monday, August 2, 2021 11:40 PM vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the comments, attached v17 patches has the fixes for the same.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your new patch.
> > >
> > > I saw the following warning when compiling. It seems we don't need this variable any more.
> > >
> > > publicationcmds.c: In function ‘AlterPublicationSchemas’:
> > > publicationcmds.c:592:15: warning: unused variable ‘oldlc’ [-Wunused-variable]
> > > ListCell *oldlc;
> > > ^~~~~
> >
> > Thanks for reporting this, this is fixed in the v18 patch attached.
>
> I've also started reviewing this patch. I've not looked at the patch
> yet but here are initial comments/questions based on using this
> feature:
>
> pg_publication catalog still has puballtables column but it's still
> necessary? IIUC since pubtype = 'a' means publishing all tables in the
> database puballtables seems no longer necessary.

Removed puballtables.

> ---
> Suppose that a parent table and its child table are defined in
> different schemas, there is a publication for the schema where only
> the parent table is defined, and the subscriber subscribes to the
> publication, should changes for its child table be replicated to the
> subscriber?
>
> In FOR TABLE cases, i.g., where the subscriber subscribes to the
> publication that is only for the parent table, changes for its child
> table are replicated to the subscriber.

Modified it to keep the behavior similar to FOR Table publication.

> As far as I tested v18 patch, changes for the child table are not
> replicated in FOR SCHEMA cases. Here is the test script:
>
> On publisher and subscriber:
> create schema p_schema;
> create schema c_schema;
> create table p_schema.p (a int) partition by list (a);
> create table c_schema.c partition of p_schema.p for values in (1);
>
> On publisher:
> create publication pub_p_schema for schema p_schema;
>
> On subscriber:
> create subscription pub connection 'dbname=postgres' publication pub_p_schema;
>
> On publisher:
> insert into p_schema.p values (1);
> select * from p_schema.p;
> a
> ---
> 1
> (1 row)
>
> On subscriber:
> select * from p_schema.p;
> a
> ---
>
> (0 rows)

Modified to handle this.
Thanks for the comments, the attached v20 patch handles the above issues.

Regards,
Vignesh