On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 02:23:50PM +0900, Fujii Masao wrote: > On 2020/06/02 13:24, Michael Paquier wrote: >> Still unconvinced as this restriction stands for logical decoding >> requiring a database connection but it is not necessarily true now as >> physical replication has less restrictions than a logical one. > > Could you tell me what the benefit for supporting physical replication on > logical rep connection is? If it's only for "undocumented" > backward-compatibility, IMO it's better to reject such "tricky" set up. > But if there are some use cases for that, I'm ok to support that.
Well, I don't really think that we can just break a behavior that exists since 9.4 as you could break applications relying on the existing behavior, and that's also the point of Vladimir upthread.
I don't see this is a valid reason to keep doing something. If it is broken then fix it.