Re: Skipping schema changes in publication

vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>

From: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>

To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2022-03-26T14:07:26Z

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Fix miscellaneous issues in EXCEPT publication clause.
- 6b0550c45d13 19 (unreleased) landed
Change syntax of EXCEPT TABLE clause in publication commands.
- 5984ea868eee 19 (unreleased) landed
Add support for EXCEPT TABLE in ALTER PUBLICATION.
- 493f8c6439cf 19 (unreleased) landed
Allow table exclusions in publications via EXCEPT TABLE.
- fd366065e06a 19 (unreleased) landed
Add wait_for_subscription_sync for TAP tests.
- 0c20dd33db16 16.0 cited

Attachments

v1-0001-Skip-publishing-the-tables-of-schema.patch (text/x-patch) patch v1-0001

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:38 PM vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.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.

Regards,
Vignesh