Re: Skipping schema changes in publication

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 12:19 PM Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 11:53 AM vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 7:37 PM vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:38 PM vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > This feature adds an option to skip changes of all tables in specified
> > > > schema while creating publication.
> > > > This feature is helpful for use cases where the user wants to
> > > > subscribe to all the changes except for the changes present in a few
> > > > schemas.
> > > > Ex:
> > > > CREATE PUBLICATION pub1 FOR ALL TABLES SKIP ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA s1,s2;
> > > > OR
> > > > ALTER PUBLICATION pub1 ADD SKIP ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA s1,s2;
> > > >
> > > > A new column pnskip is added to table "pg_publication_namespace", to
> > > > maintain the schemas that the user wants to skip publishing through
> > > > the publication. Modified the output plugin (pgoutput) to skip
> > > > publishing the changes if the relation is part of skip schema
> > > > publication.
> > > > As a continuation to this, I will work on implementing skipping tables
> > > > from all tables in schema and skipping tables from all tables
> > > > publication.
> > > >
> > > > Attached patch has the implementation for this.
> > >
> > > The patch was not applying on top of HEAD because of the recent
> > > commits, attached patch is rebased on top of HEAD.
> >
> > The patch does not apply on top of HEAD because of the recent commit,
> > attached patch is rebased on top of HEAD.
> >
> > I have also included the implementation for skipping a few tables from
> > all tables publication, the 0002 patch has the implementation for the
> > same.
> > This feature is helpful for use cases where the user wants to
> > subscribe to all the changes except for the changes present in a few
> > tables.
> > Ex:
> > CREATE PUBLICATION pub1 FOR ALL TABLES SKIP TABLE t1,t2;
> > OR
> > ALTER PUBLICATION pub1 ADD SKIP TABLE t1,t2;
> >
>
> For the second syntax (Alter Publication ...), isn't it better to
> avoid using ADD? It looks odd to me because we are not adding anything
> in publication with this sytax.

I was thinking of the scenario where user initially creates the
publication for all tables:
CREATE PUBLICATION pub1 FOR ALL TABLES;

After that user decides to skip few tables ex: t1, t2
ALTER PUBLICATION pub1 ADD SKIP TABLE t1,t2;

I thought of supporting this syntax if incase user decides to add the
skipping of a few tables later.
Thoughts?

Regards,
Vignesh