Re: Skipping logical replication transactions on subscriber side

On 02.12.21 07:48, Amit Kapila wrote:
> a. ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... [SET|RESET] SKIP TRANSACTION xxx;
> b. Alter Subscription <sub_name> SET ( subscription_parameter [=value]
> [, ... ] );
> c. Alter Subscription <sub_name> On Error ( subscription_parameter
> [=value] [, ... ] );
> d. Alter Subscription <sub_name> SKIP ( subscription_parameter
> [=value] [, ... ] );
> where subscription_parameter can be one of:
> xid = <xid_val>
> lsn = <lsn_val>
> ...

> As per discussion till now, option (d) seems preferable.

I agree.

> In this, we
> need to see how and what to allow as options. The simplest way for the
> first version is to just allow one xid to be specified at a time which
> would mean that specifying multiple xids should error out. We can also
> additionally allow specifying operations like 'insert', 'update',
> etc., and then relation list (list of oids). What that would mean is
> that for a transaction we can allow which particular operations and
> relations we want to skip.

I don't know how difficult it would be, but allowing multiple xids might 
be desirable.  But this syntax gives you flexibility, so we can also 
start with a simple implementation.

> I am not sure what exactly we can provide to users to allow skipping
> initial table sync as we can't specify XID there. One option that
> comes to mind is to allow specifying a combination of copy_data and
> relid to skip table sync for a particular relation. We might think of
> not doing anything for table sync workers but not sure if that is a
> good option.

I don't think this feature should affect tablesync.  The semantics are 
not clear, and it's not really needed.  If the tablesync doesn't work, 
you can try the setup again from scratch.