Re: Adding a '--clean-publisher-objects' option to 'pg_createsubscriber' utility.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Can you briefly recap how this is different than the automatic behavior described in the existing Step 6?
> "Drop publications on the target server that were replicated because they were created before the replication start
location.It has no use on the subscriber." 
>

These are the publications this tool has created on publisher to make
standby a subscriber, but they have replicated to standby before the
standby is converted to subscriber. As per my understanding, the patch
gives an option to remove publications that are pre-existing (aka not
created by this tool).

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.