Thank you Adrian.  copy_data = false did the trick!

Lou Tseng


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________________________________
From: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 7:10 PM
To: Lou Tseng; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Seeded Replication

On 4/3/19 4:44 AM, Lou Tseng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are working on a project to set up replication from on premises
> Postgresql 10.4 to Azure Postgresql services. However, our database is
> about 200G and it will take a long time to complete the initial data
> copy.  We would like to manually seed the subscriber database with data
> dump and then turn on the subscription like depesz showed in this post
> https://www.depesz.com/2017/02/07/waiting-for-postgresql-10-logical-replication/
>  .
> It works for the small testing database but when I applied same steps
> with entire database, I am getting "ERROR:  duplicate key value violates
> unique constraint" errors. Basically postgresql does not recognize the
> primary key.

Actually it does which why you get the error, which by the way is the
same error depesz got in his demo:)

 From your subsequent post:

CREATE SUBSCRIPTION ... WITH (enabled = false)

Did the above also have?:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/sql-createsubscription.html

copy_data = false

If not then you would copying over the data again and that would trigger
the duplicate key error.


>
> Any thought / suggestion is helpful!
>
> Lou Tseng
>
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> <http://www.advancedpricing.com/>
> Advanced Medical Pricing Solutions <http://advancedpricing.com/>
> 35 Technology Parkway South, Suite. 100
> Peachtree Corners, GA 30092
>
>


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