slot_name name

A unique, cluster-wide identifier for the replication slot

plugin name

The base name of the shared object containing the output plugin this logical slot is using, or null for physical slots.

slot_type text

The slot type: physical or logical

datoid oid (references pg_database.oid)

The OID of the database this slot is associated with, or null. Only logical slots have an associated database.

database name (references pg_database.datname)

The name of the database this slot is associated with, or null. Only logical slots have an associated database.

temporary bool

True if this is a temporary replication slot. Temporary slots are not saved to disk and are automatically dropped on error or when the session has finished.

active bool

True if this slot is currently actively being used

active_pid int4

The process ID of the session using this slot if the slot is currently actively being used. NULL if inactive.

xmin xid

The oldest transaction that this slot needs the database to retain. VACUUM cannot remove tuples deleted by any later transaction.

catalog_xmin xid

The oldest transaction affecting the system catalogs that this slot needs the database to retain. VACUUM cannot remove catalog tuples deleted by any later transaction.

restart_lsn pg_lsn

The address (LSN) of oldest WAL which still might be required by the consumer of this slot and thus won't be automatically removed during checkpoints unless this LSN gets behind more than max_slot_wal_keep_size from the current LSN. NULL if the LSN of this slot has never been reserved.

confirmed_flush_lsn pg_lsn

The address (LSN) up to which the logical slot's consumer has confirmed receiving data. Data corresponding to the transactions committed before this LSN is not available anymore. NULL for physical slots.

wal_status text

Availability of WAL files claimed by this slot. Possible values are:

The last two states are seen only when max_slot_wal_keep_size is non-negative. If restart_lsn is NULL, this field is null.

safe_wal_size int8

The number of bytes that can be written to WAL such that this slot is not in danger of getting in state "lost". It is NULL for lost slots, as well as if max_slot_wal_keep_size is -1.

two_phase bool

True if the slot is enabled for decoding prepared transactions. Always false for physical slots.

inactive_since timestamptz

The time since the slot has become inactive. NULL if the slot is currently being used. Note that for slots on the standby that are being synced from a primary server (whose synced field is true), the inactive_since indicates the last synchronization (see Section 47.2.3) time.

conflicting bool

True if this logical slot conflicted with recovery (and so is now invalidated). When this column is true, check invalidation_reason column for the conflict reason. Always NULL for physical slots.

invalidation_reason text

The reason for the slot's invalidation. It is set for both logical and physical slots. NULL if the slot is not invalidated. Possible values are:

failover bool

True if this is a logical slot enabled to be synced to the standbys so that logical replication can be resumed from the new primary after failover. Always false for physical slots.

synced bool

True if this is a logical slot that was synced from a primary server. On a hot standby, the slots with the synced column marked as true can neither be used for logical decoding nor dropped manually. The value of this column has no meaning on the primary server; the column value on the primary is default false for all slots but may (if leftover from a promoted standby) also be true.