Re: abusing session_replication_mode

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> To emulate this logic in a PostgreSQL trigger, I think I can define
> a security definer trigger function created by the database
> superuser with session_replication_mode set for the function to
> 'replica'.  It's a lie, but it seems like it does the right thing --
> triggers won't be called for what this trigger does unless we flag
> them as ENABLE ALWAYS or ENABLE REPLICA.  We will want to do this
> for our triggered change notifications and replication publishing
> triggers.
>
> I assume this will prevent us from using, for example, Slony with
> such a database, but are there any other down sides of abusing this
> GUC in this fashion?  Does anyone see a reasonable alternative?

I don't see any downsides. And technically you can use the old version
of Slony, or a quick hack to Bucardo to force it to use the old system
catalog hack method (which I've actually done with a client before -
don't ask why). An alternative would be to have a quick check at the
top of the trigger checking for a certain state to be set before
proceeding (e.g. custom GUC or just a weird entry on an existing one,
like ssl_renogiation_limit = 543210).

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