On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM David G. Johnston <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Can you briefly recap how this is different than the automatic behavior > described in the existing Step 6? > "Drop publications on the target server that were replicated because they > were created before the replication start location. It has no use on the > subscriber." >
These are the publications this tool has created on publisher to make standby a subscriber, but they have replicated to standby before the standby is converted to subscriber. As per my understanding, the patch gives an option to remove publications that are pre-existing (aka not created by this tool). -- With Regards, Amit Kapila.