Re: Initial Schema Sync for Logical Replication - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 10:27 PM Kumar, Sachin <ssetiya@amazon.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a couple of questions.
> >
> > Q1.
> >
> > What happens if the subscriber already has some tables present? For
> > example, I did not see the post saying anything like "Only if the table does
> > not already exist then it will be created".
> >
> My assumption was the if subscriber is doing initial schema sync , It does not have
> any conflicting database objects.
>

Can't we simply error out in such a case with "obj already exists"?
This would be similar to how we deal with conflicting rows with
unique/primary keys.

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.