Re: Skipping logical replication transactions on subscriber side - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 11:58 PM David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 7:47 AM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Yeah, I think it's a good idea to clear the subskipxid after the first
>> transaction regardless of whether the worker skipped it.
>>
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> So basically instead of stopping the worker with an error you suggest having the worker continue applying changes
(afterresetting subskipxid, and - arguably - the ?_error_* fields).  Log the transaction xid mis-match as a warning in
thelog file as opposed to an error. 

Agreed, I think it's better to log a warning than to raise an error.
In the case where the user specified the wrong XID, the worker should
fail again due to the same error.

Regards,

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Masahiko Sawada
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