Re: Proposal: Conflict log history table for Logical Replication

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>

From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
To: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Cc: shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-08-20T12:16:29Z
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  1. Allow logical replication conflicts to be logged to a table.

  2. Avoid orphaned objects dependencies

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
>
> > One idea to keep things simple for the first version is that we allow
> > users to specify the table_name for storing conflicts but the table
> > should be created internally and if the same name table already
> > exists, we can give an ERROR. Then we can later extend the
> > functionality to even allow storing conflicts in pre-created tables
> > with more checks about its schema.
>
> That's fair too.  I am wondering what namespace we should create this
> user table in. If we are creating internally, I assume the user should
> provide a schema qualified name right?
>

Yeah, but if not provided then we should create it based on
search_path similar to what we do when user created the table from
psql.

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.