Re: Track in pg_replication_slots the reason why slots conflict?

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: shveta malik <shveta(dot)malik(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Track in pg_replication_slots the reason why slots conflict?
Date: 2023-12-21 15:26:56
Message-ID: 20231221152656.3w6hxpcr2m3qw6pz@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2023-12-21 19:55:51 +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 5:05 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > We clearly can't just expose the numerical value for a C enum. So it has to be
> > converted to something SQL representable.
> >
>
> We can return int2 value from the function pg_get_replication_slots()
> and then use that to display a string in the view
> pg_replication_slots.

I strongly dislike that pattern. It just leads to complicated views - and
doesn't provide a single benefit that I am aware of. It's much bettter to
simply populate the text version in pg_get_replication_slots().

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