On Mon, Sep 27, 2021, at 4:09 AM, tushar wrote: > so are we silently ignoring this parameter as it is not supported on v14 ? Yes. Because two_phase is a supported parameter for v15 (your current subscriber). The issue is that this parameter are not forwarded to publisher because its version (v14) does not support it. Since we do not have a connection before parse_subscription_options(), publisher server version is unknown. Hence, it does not know if that specific parameter is supported on publisher. I'm not sure it is worth parsing the options again after a replication connection is available just to check those parameters that don't work on all supported server versions.
IMO we can provide messages during the connection (see libpqrcv_startstreaming()) instead of while executing CREATE/ALTER SUBSCRIPTION. Something like: if (options->proto.logical.twophase && PQserverVersion(conn->streamConn) >= 150000) appendStringInfoString(&cmd, ", two_phase 'on'"); else if (options->proto.logical.twophase) ereport(DEBUG1, (errmsg_internal("parameter \"two_phase\" is not supported on the publisher"))); It is a DEBUG message because it can be annoying when the subscriber cannot connect to the publisher. The output plugin also raises an error if the subscriber sends the two_phase parameter. See pgoutput_startup(). The subscriber could probably send all parameters and the output plugin would be responsible to report an error. I think the author decided to not do it because it is not an user-friendly approach. -- Euler Taveira EDB https://www.enterprisedb.com/