> On Oct 22, 2026, at 16:14, Fujii Masao <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 2:20 PM Takeshi Ideriha
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thank you for addressing my suggestion. V3 looks good to me. I also
>> believe the same wording works.
>
> Thanks for updating the patch!
>
> + For a partitioned table, <literal>ONLY</literal> and
> <literal>*</literal>
> + have no effect: its partitions are always implicitly considered part of
> + the publication, so they do not need to be added explicitly.
>
> In ALTER PUBLICATION, "table_name" also applies to DROP and EXCEPT,
> so seems the original wording needs to account for those cases.
> How about:
>
> For a partitioned table, <literal>ONLY</literal> and
> <literal>*</literal>
> have no effect. When a partitioned table is included in a publication,
> its partitions are implicitly included as well and need not be added
> explicitly. For tables specified in <literal>EXCEPT</literal>, see the
> description of
> <link
> linkend="sql-createpublication-params-for-except-table"><literal>EXCEPT</literal></link>
> in <xref linkend="sql-createpublication"/>.
>
I like the first part of your suggested change, “when a partitioned table is
included in a publication”, but I don't think we need to mention EXCEPT
separately. Maybe we could just replace “not be added explicitly” with “not be
included explicitly”? I think that should cover the EXCEPT case as well.
Best regards,
--
Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/
