Replicating DDL changes (replicateddl) v7

The replicateddl command applies an ALTER TABLE statement to a publication table in all databases of a replication system. It also updates the Replication Server insert/update/delete triggers and shadow table associated with that publication table.

Synopsis

-replicateddl pubname
  -repsvrfile pubsvrfile
  -table schema_t.table_name
  -ddlscriptfile script_file

See Replicating DDL changes for more information.

Parameters

pubname

The name of the publication containing the table to which to apply the ALTER TABLE statement.

pubsvrfile

The file containing the publication server login information.

schema_t

The name of the schema containing table_name. This value is case sensitive.

table_name

The name of the table in the ALTER TABLE statement whose definition to modify. This value is case sensitive.

script_file

Path to the file containing the ALTER TABLE statements.

Examples

This example shows the addition of a column named title to table edb.emp. The ALTER TABLE statement is in the text file addcolumn.sql.

ALTER TABLE edb.emp ADD COLUMN title VARCHAR(20);
The replicateddl command is executed using the addcolumn.sql file to update the triggers and shadow tables on the primary nodes:
$ java -jar edb-repcli.jar -replicateddl emp_pub \
>   -repsvrfile ~/pubsvrfile.prop \
>   -table edb.emp \
>   -ddlscriptfile ~/addcolumn.sql
DDL changes successfully replicated to all primary nodes.