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> On Mar 12, 2025, at 11:01, Paul Foerster <paul.foerster@gmail.com> =
wrote:
> DDL during logical replication unfortunately is a show-stopper.

You *can* apply DDL while logical replication is going on, as long as =
you do so in a disciplined way.  This generally means applying it to the =
subscriber before you apply it to the publisher, and making sure that =
any columns added to a table are either NULLable or have defaults.