ALTER SUBSCRIPTION(7) PostgreSQL 14.19 Documentation ALTER SUBSCRIPTION(7)
NAME
ALTER_SUBSCRIPTION - change the definition of a subscription
SYNOPSIS
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION name CONNECTION 'conninfo'
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION name SET PUBLICATION publication_name [, ...] [ WITH ( publication_option [= value] [, ... ] ) ]
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION name ADD PUBLICATION publication_name [, ...] [ WITH ( publication_option [= value] [, ... ] ) ]
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION name DROP PUBLICATION publication_name [, ...] [ WITH ( publication_option [= value] [, ... ] ) ]
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION name REFRESH PUBLICATION [ WITH ( refresh_option [= value] [, ... ] ) ]
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION name ENABLE
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION name DISABLE
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION name SET ( subscription_parameter [= value] [, ... ] )
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION name OWNER TO { new_owner | CURRENT_ROLE | CURRENT_USER | SESSION_USER }
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION name RENAME TO new_name
DESCRIPTION
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION can change most of the subscription properties that can be specified in
CREATE SUBSCRIPTION (CREATE_SUBSCRIPTION(7)).
You must own the subscription to use ALTER SUBSCRIPTION. To alter the owner, you must also
be a direct or indirect member of the new owning role. The new owner has to be a
superuser. (Currently, all subscription owners must be superusers, so the owner checks
will be bypassed in practice. But this might change in the future.)
When refreshing a publication we remove the relations that are no longer part of the
publication and we also remove the table synchronization slots if there are any. It is
necessary to remove these slots so that the resources allocated for the subscription on
the remote host are released. If due to network breakdown or some other error, PostgreSQL
is unable to remove the slots, an ERROR will be reported. To proceed in this situation,
the user either needs to retry the operation or disassociate the slot from the
subscription and drop the subscription as explained in DROP SUBSCRIPTION
(DROP_SUBSCRIPTION(7)).
Commands ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... REFRESH PUBLICATION and ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ...
{SET|ADD|DROP} PUBLICATION ... with refresh option as true cannot be executed inside a
transaction block.
PARAMETERS
name
The name of a subscription whose properties are to be altered.
CONNECTION 'conninfo'
This clause alters the connection property originally set by CREATE SUBSCRIPTION
(CREATE_SUBSCRIPTION(7)). See there for more information.
SET PUBLICATION publication_name
ADD PUBLICATION publication_name
DROP PUBLICATION publication_name
Changes the list of subscribed publications. SET replaces the entire list of
publications with a new list, ADD adds additional publications to the list of
publications, and DROP removes the publications from the list of publications. See
CREATE SUBSCRIPTION (CREATE_SUBSCRIPTION(7)) for more information. By default, this
command will also act like REFRESH PUBLICATION.
publication_option specifies additional options for this operation. The supported
options are:
refresh (boolean)
When false, the command will not try to refresh table information. REFRESH
PUBLICATION should then be executed separately. The default is true.
Additionally, the options described under REFRESH PUBLICATION may be specified, to
control the implicit refresh operation.
REFRESH PUBLICATION
Fetch missing table information from publisher. This will start replication of tables
that were added to the subscribed-to publications since the last invocation of REFRESH
PUBLICATION or since CREATE SUBSCRIPTION.
refresh_option specifies additional options for the refresh operation. The supported
options are:
copy_data (boolean)
Specifies whether the existing data in the publications that are being subscribed
to should be copied once the replication starts. The default is true. (Previously
subscribed tables are not copied.)
ENABLE
Enables the previously disabled subscription, starting the logical replication worker
at the end of transaction.
DISABLE
Disables the running subscription, stopping the logical replication worker at the end
of transaction.
SET ( subscription_parameter [= value] [, ... ] )
This clause alters parameters originally set by CREATE SUBSCRIPTION
(CREATE_SUBSCRIPTION(7)). See there for more information. The parameters that can be
altered are slot_name, synchronous_commit, binary, and streaming.
new_owner
The user name of the new owner of the subscription.
new_name
The new name for the subscription.
EXAMPLES
Change the publication subscribed by a subscription to insert_only:
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION mysub SET PUBLICATION insert_only;
Disable (stop) the subscription:
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION mysub DISABLE;
COMPATIBILITY
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION is a PostgreSQL extension.
SEE ALSO
CREATE SUBSCRIPTION (CREATE_SUBSCRIPTION(7)), DROP SUBSCRIPTION (DROP_SUBSCRIPTION(7)),
CREATE PUBLICATION (CREATE_PUBLICATION(7)), ALTER PUBLICATION (ALTER_PUBLICATION(7))
PostgreSQL 14.19 2025 ALTER SUBSCRIPTION(7)
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