Re: pg_upgrade and logical replication - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 07:31:41PM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 3:37 PM vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Once the table is in SUBREL_STATE_SYNCDONE state, the apply worker
>> will check if the apply worker has some LSN records that need to be
>> applied to reach the LSN of the table. Once the required WAL is
>> applied, the table state will be changed from SUBREL_STATE_SYNCDONE to
>> SUBREL_STATE_READY state. Since there is a chance that in this case
>> the apply worker has to apply some transactions to get all the tables
>> in READY state, I felt the minimum requirement should be that at least
>> all the tables should be in READY state for the upgradation of the
>> Subscriber.
>
> I don't think this theory is completely correct because the pending
> WAL can be applied even after an upgrade.

Yeah, agreed that putting a pre-check about the state of the relations
stored in pg_subscription_rel when handling the upgrade of a
subscriber is not necessary.
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Michael