Use the *Subscription* dialog to create a subscription. A subscription defines the connection to another database and set of publications (one or more) to which it wants to subscribe.
The *subscription* dialog organizes the development of a subscription through the following dialog tabs: *General*, *Connection* and *With*. The *SQL* tab displays the SQL code generated by dialog selections.
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Use the fields in the *General* tab to identify the subscription:
* Use the *Name* field to add a descriptive name for the subscription. The name will be displayed in the *pgAdmin* tree control.
* The *Owner* field takes the name of the user automatically as current connected user. You can change the owner after creating subscription using alter subscription. Please note that owner of the subscription has superuser privileges.
Click the *Connection* tab to continue.
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Use the *Connection* tab to define the connection string to the publisher:
* Use the *Host name/address* field to provide the valid hostname or ip address of the publication.
* Use the *Port* field to provide port number to connect at Postgres Server in which publication is residing.
* Use the *Username* field to provide the name of the user to connect to the publication.
* Use the *Password* to provide the password of the user.
* Use the *Database* field to connect to the database in which publication is residing.
* Use the *Connection timeout* field to specify the maximum wait for connection, in seconds. Zero or not specified means wait indefinetly. It is not recommended to use a timeout of less than 2 seconds.
* Use the *Passfile* field to specify the location of a password file (.pgpass). A .pgpass file allows a user to login without providing a password when they connect. For more information, see `Section 33.15 of the Postgres documentation <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgpass.html>`_.
* Use the *Publication* field to specify the publication name on the publishers to subscribe to. Click on the refresh button at the end to load the names of the existing publications and then select from the list. You can also write the name of the known publication in the field.
Use the *With* tab to define some parameters for a subscription:
* The *Copy data?* switch specifies whether the existing data in the publications that are being subscribed to should be copied once the replication starts. By default it is set to *Yes*.
* The *Create slot?* switch specifies whether the command should create the replication slot on the publisher. By default it is set to *Yes*. Please note: if your publisher and subscriber both are inside same PostgreSQL server then is is set to *No* by default.
* The *Enabled?* switch specifies whether the subscription should be actively replicating, or whether it should be just setup but not started yet. By default it is set to *Yes*.
* The *Connect?* specifies whether the CREATE SUBSCRIPTION should connect to the publisher at all. By default, it is set to *Yes*. Setting this to *No* will change default values of enabled, create_slot and copy_data to *No*.
* Use the *Slot Name* field to specify the name of the replication slot to use. By default, it uses the name of the subscription for the slot name.
* Use the *Synchronous commit* field to override the synchronous_commit setting. By default, it is set to *off*. It is safe to use off for logical replication: If the subscriber loses transactions because of missing synchronization, the data will be sent again from the publisher.
Click the *SQL* tab to continue.
Your entries in the *Subscription* dialog generate a SQL command (see an example below). Use the *SQL* tab for review; revisit or switch tabs to make any changes to the SQL command.
**Example**
The following is an example of the sql command generated by user selections in
