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db sync fails to start

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
postgresql, python
Domain
databases

Research direction

Start by reproducing the failure with DB-SYNC 2.1.1 on Windows against a PostgreSQL table using row-level security, then compare it with a table using a UUID key. Use the reported duplicate ogc_fid error and the empty UPDATE ... SET WHERE statement as the completion criteria: synchronization should start without either SQL error.

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Description

I actually experiencing two type of issues. I am using DB-SYNC 2.1.1 on windows.

I have couple of tables in a database and I am actively use row level security, to modify the availability of data to field users.
Whenever I try to sync a table with activated row level security the db sync fails as it tries to add the id column two times:

Error: postgres cmd error: ERROR: column "ogc_fid" specified more than once

so I removed all the privileges setup, it did fail. I tried with postgres user it did fail. I removed my original id column and added uuid field with uuid_generate_v4() this helped to generate another error

LINE 1: UPDATE "public_db_sync"."chambers_mergin" SET  WHERE "uuid2"...
                                                       ^
SQL:
UPDATE "public_db_sync"."chambers_mergin" SET  WHERE "uuid2" = 'ffdc0ee4-6fd8-4e90-a5e3-32a975efc37c'

any help would be much appreciated

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