Re: Isn't "publication" wrongly defined here? - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: Isn't "publication" wrongly defined here?
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Msg-id CAKFQuwbaQGcwpVayCu2GaX-Ja4Uno9koToBnnbKO8Lb75SDcyw@mail.gmail.com
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Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/logical-replication-publication.html
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In section 31.1 it says "A publication is a set of changes generated from a
table or a group of tables"... that seems wrong. It's a set of relations,
tables, whatevers. No the changes themselves. Right?

It's correct.  The subscriber receives ongoing "events" which are the logical changes to all tables defined within the publication.  The items of interest are the ongoing changes, the list of tables is just a table of contents for which change sets are present.

David J.

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