Re: [HACKERS] Create publication syntax is not coming properly inpg_dump / pg_dumpall

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 5:04 PM, tushar <tushar.ahuja@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I observed that in pg_dump/pg_dumpall - 'create publication' syntax is not
>> coming properly if only specified value  is mentioned in publish.
>>
>> Testcase to reproduce -
>>
>> \\create a publication
>>
>> postgres=# CREATE PUBLICATION abc for all tables with (publish='insert');
>> CREATE PUBLICATION
>>
>> \\take the plain dump
>>
>> [centos@centos-cpula bin]$ ./pg_dump -FP -p 5000 postgres  > /tmp/a.a
>>
>> \\check the syntax
>>
>> [centos@centos-cpula bin]$ cat /tmp/a.a |grep 'create publication abc' -i
>> CREATE PUBLICATION abc FOR ALL TABLES WITH (publish = 'insert, , ');
>>
>> \\try to execute the same syntax against psql terminal
>>
>> postgres=# CREATE PUBLICATION abc FOR ALL TABLES WITH (publish = 'insert, ,
>> ');
>> ERROR:  invalid publish list
>>
>> Same is valid for pg_dumpall as well..
>>
>
> Thank you for reporting.
>
> Hm, It's a bug of pg_dump. Attached patch should fix both pg_dump and
> pg_dumpall.
>
I've reproduced the bug and the patch fixes the issue for me. Also,
tested with different combinations of insert, delete and update.

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