On 18.03.24 08:18, vignesh C wrote:
> 1) Maximum size of the object name is 64, we can have a check so that
> we don't specify more than the maximum allowed length:
> + case 3:
> + if (!simple_string_list_member(&opt.replslot_names, optarg))
> + {
> + simple_string_list_append(&opt.replslot_names, optarg);
> + num_replslots++;
> + }
> + else
> + {
> + pg_log_error("duplicate replication slot \"%s\"", optarg);
> + exit(1);
> + }
> + break;
>
> If we allow something like this:
> ./pg_createsubscriber -U postgres -D data_N2/ -P "port=5431
> user=postgres" -p 5432 -s /home/vignesh/postgres/inst/bin/ -d db1 -d
> db2 -d db3 --replication-slot="testtesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttes1"
> --replication-slot="testtesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttes2"
> --replication-slot="testtesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttes3"
> In this case creation of replication slot will fail:
> pg_createsubscriber: error: could not create replication slot
> "testtesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttes" on
> database "db2": ERROR: replication slot
> "testtesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttes"
> already exists
I think this is fine. The server can check whether the names it is
given are of the right size. We don't need to check it again in the client.
> 2) Similarly here too:
> + case 4:
> + if (!simple_string_list_member(&opt.sub_names, optarg))
> + {
> + simple_string_list_append(&opt.sub_names, optarg);
> + num_subs++;
> + }
> + else
> + {
> + pg_log_error("duplicate subscription \"%s\"", optarg);
> + exit(1);
> + }
> + break;
>
> If we allow something like this:
> ./pg_createsubscriber -U postgres -D data_N2/ -P "port=5431
> user=postgres" -p 5432 -s /home/vignesh/postgres/inst/bin/ -d db1 -d
> db2 -d db3 --subscription=testtesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttes1
> --subscription=testtesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttes2
> --subscription=testtesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttesttes3
>
> Subscriptions will be created with the same name and later there will
> be a problem when setting replication progress as there will be
> multiple subscriptions with the same name.
Could you clarify this problem?