Re: why can't a table be part of the same publication as its schema

> On Sep 9, 2022, at 8:18 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Things might be clearer if we'd made the syntax "ALTER PUBLICATION p1
> { ADD | DROP } { TABLE | SCHEMA } name". I don't understand why we
> used this ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA language.

The conversation, as I recall, was that "ADD SCHEMA foo" would only mean all tables in foo, until publication of other
objecttypes became supported, at which point "ADD SCHEMA foo" would suddenly mean more than it did before.  People
mightfind that surprising, so the "ALL TABLES IN" was intended to future-proof against surprising behavioral changes. 

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