Which scenario causes replication to fail for policy-protected objects?

• A. The primary database is in an Enterprise (or higher) account and contains a policy but one or more replication accounts are on lower editions
• B. Replication always succeeds regardless of edition
• C. Replication never copies row access policies
• D. Replication duplicates only underlying tables

Answer: (A)

Policy-protected objects rely on features that are available only in certain Snowflake editions. When the source database contains a policy (for example, a row access policy) and the replication targets are on a lower edition, the policy definitions cannot be replicated and enforced there. Snowflake blocks replication of those objects to avoid transferring access-control mechanisms that the target edition cannot support. To make replication work, all replica accounts must be on an edition that supports policy-protected objects (such as Enterprise or higher), or those policy objects must be excluded from replication.