Fix the errhint message and docs for drop subscription failure.

The existing errhint message and docs were missing the fact that we can't
disassociate from the slot unless the subscription is disabled.

Author: Robert Sjöblom, Peter Smith
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 11
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/807bdf85-61ea-88e2-5712-6d9fcd4eabff@fortnox.se
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Amit Kapila 2023-06-21 09:31:32 +05:30
parent f6345f03f3
commit 6973868c9d
2 changed files with 9 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -84,9 +84,11 @@ DROP SUBSCRIPTION [ IF EXISTS ] <replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable
for the subscription on the remote host are released. If this fails,
either because the remote host is not reachable or because the remote
replication slot cannot be dropped or does not exist or never existed,
the <command>DROP SUBSCRIPTION</command> command will fail. To proceed in
this situation, disassociate the subscription from the replication slot by
executing <literal>ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... SET (slot_name = NONE)</literal>.
the <command>DROP SUBSCRIPTION</command> command will fail. To proceed
in this situation, first disable the subscription by executing
<literal>ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... DISABLE</literal>, and then disassociate
it from the replication slot by executing
<literal>ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... SET (slot_name = NONE)</literal>.
After that, <command>DROP SUBSCRIPTION</command> will no longer attempt any
actions on a remote host. Note that if the remote replication slot still
exists, it should then be dropped manually; otherwise it will continue to

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@ -975,8 +975,10 @@ DropSubscription(DropSubscriptionStmt *stmt, bool isTopLevel)
(errmsg("could not connect to publisher when attempting to "
"drop the replication slot \"%s\"", slotname),
errdetail("The error was: %s", err),
errhint("Use ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... SET (slot_name = NONE) "
"to disassociate the subscription from the slot.")));
/* translator: %s is an SQL ALTER command */
errhint("Use %s to disable the subscription, and then use %s to disassociate it from the slot.",
"ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... DISABLE",
"ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... SET (slot_name = NONE)")));
PG_TRY();
{