Re: Tracking replication slot "blockings"

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Tracking replication slot "blockings"
Date: 2014-04-16 17:12:50
Message-ID: 20140416171250.GQ17874@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-04-16 19:09:09 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>wrote:
> > The xlog removal code just check the "global minimum" required LSN - it
> > doesn't check the individual slots. So you'd need to add a bit more code
> > to that location. But it'd be easy.
> >
>
> Do we have statistics there somewhere - how often that global minimum
> blocks something? That on it's own might be a start :)

Nope. Check xlog.c:KeepLogSeg(), it's pretty simple stuff ;). It's the
same place where wal_keep_segments is enforced...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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