On 6/10/22 05:57, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
I am trying to write a stored procedure (Postgres 13) to enable
non-superusers to re-create a subscription.


However, the "drop subscription" part results in this error:

     ERROR:  DROP SUBSCRIPTION cannot be executed from a function
     CONTEXT:  SQL statement "drop subscription if exists my_replication"

I first thought that the initial SELECT to fetch all replicated tables,
starts an implicit transaction, so I removed everything else from the procedure,
including the dynamic SQL.

But even this very simple implementation:

     create or replace procedure drop_subscription()
     as
     $$
     begin
       drop subscription if exists test_subscription;
     end;
     $$
     security definer
     language plpgsql;


fails with that error.

Is there any way, I can provide a stored procedure to do this?

From the docs:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-dropsubscription.html

"DROP SUBSCRIPTION cannot be executed inside a transaction block if the subscription is associated with a replication slot. (You can use ALTER SUBSCRIPTION to unset the slot.)"

I have not tested but you might try the ALTER SUBSCRIPTION first, though note the caveats here:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-altersubscription.html


Regards
Thomas




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Adrian Klaver
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