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Re: Logical Replication of sequences

Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com> — 2025-11-11T04:28:50Z

On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 at 09:02, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 at 14:34, Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > While working on another thread, I found that in HEAD gram.y has
> > > grammar which was committed as part of this thread:
> > > ```
> > >             | CREATE PUBLICATION name FOR pub_obj_type_list opt_definition
> > >                 {
> > >                     CreatePublicationStmt *n = makeNode(CreatePublicationStmt);
> > >
> > >                     n->pubname = $3;
> > >                     n->pubobjects = (List *) $5;
> > >                     preprocess_pub_all_objtype_list($5, &n->for_all_tables,
> > >                                                     &n->for_all_sequences,
> > >                                                     yyscanner);
> > >                     n->options = $6;
> > >                     $$ = (Node *) n;
> > >                 }
> > > ```
> > >
> > > Here we are assigning "n->pubobjects = (List *) $5". But later in the
> > > code this is not used anywhere for ALL TABLES/ ALL SEQUENCES
> > > publication. It is used for other publications (not ALL TABLES/
> > > SEQUENCES) inside function "ObjectsInPublicationToOids"
> > >
> > > So are we required to assign "n->pubobjects" here?
> > >
> > > I have created a patch to remove this assignment. It passed "make check-world".
> >
> > I agree that this is not required for ALL TABLES/ALL SEQUENCES cases.
> >
>
> I also agree. BTW, can we change pub_obj_type_list to
> pub_all_obj_type_list to be more explicit about this variant? If you
> agree then we can make similar changes
> (pub_obj_type->pub_all_obj_type) at the following places as well:
>
> + * CREATE PUBLICATION FOR ALL pub_obj_type [, ...] [WITH options]
> + *
> + * pub_obj_type is one of:
> + *
>
Hi Vignesh, Amit

Thanks for confirming.
Also, I agree that the name 'pub_all_obj_type' will be more suitable.
I have updated the patch for the same.

Thanks,
Shlok Kyal