1. A method of idling a specified database object during database replication comprising: receiving a request from a requestor to idle a specified database object during database replication from a source database to a target database, wherein operations applied to the source database are transferred during optimizer operations as target operations and applied to the target database, the optimizer operations performing actions to optimize the database replication; monitoring target operations for the specified database object on the target database; when a commit is received: insert, into a replication pipeline upon receipt of the commit, a first control record, and insert, into the replication pipeline, a second control record; forcing the commit of all of the optimizer operations in response to receiving the first control record from the replication pipeline; suspending replication of the specified database object in response to receiving the second control record from the replication pipeline; and notifying the requestor when the idling of the specified database object has completed; and when the specified database object is included in an apply status map, which includes a list of database objects for which target operations are to be applied when the optimizer operations are enabled: delaying the suspending of the replication of the specified database object until the target operations are committed, and sending a confirmation message to the source database indicating that the suspending of the replication of the specified database object was successful.