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Re: DOCS: Describe some missing parameters on CREATE/ALTER PUBLICATION pages

Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> — 2026-05-18T05:42:59Z

On Wed, Apr 8, 2026 at 3:10 PM Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I noticed that the CREATE PUBLICATION and ALTER PUBLICATION sysnopses
> contain some user-specified parameters which are not defined, and not
> even mentioned anywhere else.
>
> For example,
>
> ALTER PUBLICATION
> - defines 'name', 'table_name', 'schema_name'
> - never mentions 'column_name'
>
> CREATE PUBLICATION
> - defines 'name'
> - never mentions 'table_name', 'schema_name', 'column_name'
>
> ~~~
>
> It seems wrong to include undefined synopsis parameters and just
> assume they will be self-explanatory.
>
> It is ad-hoc; some terms are described on one page but not on the other.
>
> ~
>
> PSA a small patch to make these parameter descriptions more complete
> and consistent.
>
> In passing, I also added some missing <varlistentry> "id"s for the
> ALTER PUBLICATION page.
>

Ping. This patch was posted about 5 weeks ago, but has received no
feedback so far.

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Kind Regards,
Peter Smith.
Fujitsu Australia