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From: Peter Smith <[email protected]>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: DOC: pg_publication_rel.prrelid says sequences are possible
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 15:59:54 +1100
Message-ID: <CAHut+Pv1UKR_bxmN7wcCCpQveHoYprvH-hbdFq8gsaH1Ye7B_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi.

It is my understanding that only tables can exist in the
'pg_publication_rel' catalog.

e.g. only for these scenarios:
* included tables - when pg_publication.puballtables is false, these
are the specified FOR TABLE ... tables
* excluded tables - when pg_publication.puballtables is true, these
are the specified FOR ALL TABLES EXCEPT (TABLE ...) tables

In particular, AFAIK there is no way for sequences to be in the
'pg_publication_rel' catalog. e.g.
PG19 only supports "CREATE PUBLICATION ... FOR ALL SEQUENCES", which
is indicated by pg_publication.puballsequences.
PG19 has no support for "CREATE PUBLICATION ... FOR SEQUENCE seq1,seq2".

~~

Meanwhile, the DOCS page for 'pg_publication_rel' catalog [1] since
commit 55cefad says that sequences are also possible [2]:
------
prrelid oid (references pg_class.oid)
Reference to table or sequence
------

How are sequences possible? PSA a patch to correct it.

Or, am I mistaken here?

======
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/catalog-pg-publication-rel.html
[2] https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/55cefadde874e52b57f7b3c2232744e331f9d6bb#diff-686ae87477...

Kind Regards,
Peter Smith.
Fujitsu Australia


Attachments:

  [application/octet-stream] v1-0001-DOCS-pg_publication_rel.prrelid.patch (843B, 2-v1-0001-DOCS-pg_publication_rel.prrelid.patch)
  download | inline diff:
From 95ddfbdde67e34a27ac2e150b020c208a7dfc784 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Smith <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 15:25:52 +1100
Subject: [PATCH v1] DOCS - pg_publication_rel.prrelid

---
 doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml
index 92d179b5ee0..0b3e6308d56 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml
@@ -7086,7 +7086,7 @@ SCRAM-SHA-256$<replaceable>&lt;iteration count&gt;</replaceable>:<replaceable>&l
        (references <link linkend="catalog-pg-class"><structname>pg_class</structname></link>.<structfield>oid</structfield>)
       </para>
       <para>
-       Reference to table or sequence
+       Reference to table
       </para></entry>
      </row>
 
-- 
2.47.3



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