Re: Non-reserved replication slots and slot advancing

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Non-reserved replication slots and slot advancing
Date: 2018-07-03 17:23:50
Message-ID: 20180703172350.hh3ky5idcqvayfs6@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2018-Jul-03, Andres Freund wrote:

> I'm not clear to why this is a problem? Seems like either behaviour can
> be argued for. I don't really have an opinion either way. I'd just
> remove the item from the open items list, I don't think we need to hold
> up the release for it?

After reading this more carefully, isn't the problem that as soon as you
get a slot into the 0/1 restart_lsn state, WAL recycling/deletion no
longer happens? That does sound like a bad thing to me.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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