Replication: Skip external and Apache Iceberg™ tables during refresh operation

Attention

This behavior change is in the 2024_02 bundle.

For the current status of the bundle, refer to Bundle History.

Replication doesn’t currently support external tables or Apache Iceberg™ tables. The behavior of a refresh operation for a primary database that contains an external table or Iceberg table is as follows:

Before the change:

If a primary database contains an external table or an Iceberg table, the refresh operation fails.

After the change:

If a primary database contains external tables or Iceberg tables, the external tables or Iceberg tables are skipped during the refresh operation and the refresh operation succeeds.

Ref: 1528