Ambiguous description on new columns
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Date: 2024-05-20T15:26:27Z
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The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/logical-replication-col-lists.html Description: The documentation on this page mentions: "If no column list is specified, any columns added later are automatically replicated." It feels ambiguous what this could mean. Does it mean: 1/ That if you alter the table on the publisher and add a new column, it will be replicated 2/ If you add a column list later and add a column to it, it will be replicated In both cases, does the subscriber automatically create this column if it wasn't there before? I recall reading that the initial data synchronization requires the schema of the publisher database to be created on the subscriber first. But then later updates sync newly created columns? I don't recall any pages on logical replication mentioning this, up to this point. Regards, Koen De Groote
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Doc: Fix ambuiguity in column lists.
- 3470391e169e 17.0 landed
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