TL;DR: Enable logical replication on the project (Console project settings, CLI, or API). # Publishing logical replication from Neon ## The trap The toggle looks harmless in the Console. It is not: enabling logical replication changes

## Fix
1. Enable logical replication on the project (Console project settings, CLI, or API).
   Expected: this specific failure stops.
2. Create the publication and replication slot on the publisher:.
   Expected: this specific failure stops.
3. hostname will not work. ## Checklist - Irreversible wal_level change: be sure before enabling. - Subscriber connection string: direct, no.
   Expected: this specific failure stops.
4. If you use IP Allow, add the subscriber's IPs to the list. - Tables need a replica identity (primary key) for updates/deletes to replicate.
   Expected: this specific failure stops.

## Details
It is not: enabling logical replication changes `wal_level` from `replica` to `logical` Plan a maintenance window. Warn stakeholders: connections will drop and reconnect. 2. 3. ```sql
CREATE PUBLICATION [pub-name] FOR TABLES [table1], [table2];
SELECT pg_create_logical_replication_slot('[slot-name]', 'pgoutput');
``` 4. On the subscriber, create the subscription with `create_slot = false` 5. Critical: the subscriber must connect with the direct connection string. Logical replication needs a persistent connection; the `-pooler` `-pooler`

## When to use
You hit exactly this: Neon as logical replication publisher: enable once, carefully in Neon as logical replication publisher.

## When not to use
A different error, or the same symptom in a different tool. This page only covers the failure above.

## Compatibility
Neon as logical replication publisher.

## Root cause
and the slot name, because you created the slot manually.

## Edge cases
- # Publishing logical replication from Neon ## The trap The toggle looks harmless in the Console.
- for all databases in the project, it cannot be reverted, and it restarts all computes, dropping every active connection. ## The rule 1.

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## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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    "https://neon.com/docs/guides/logical-replication-neon"
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```