Re: Introduce XID age and inactive timeout based replication slot invalidation

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Introduce XID age and inactive timeout based replication slot invalidation
Date: 2024-03-11 14:13:57
Message-ID: 20240311141357.GA1349955@nathanxps13
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 04:09:27PM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> I don't see how it will be easier for the user to choose the default
> value of 'max_slot_xid_age' compared to 'max_slot_wal_keep_size'. But,
> I agree similar to 'max_slot_wal_keep_size', 'max_slot_xid_age' can be
> another parameter to allow vacuum to proceed removing the rows which
> otherwise it wouldn't have been as those would be required by some
> slot.

Yeah, the idea is to help prevent transaction ID wraparound, so I would
expect max_slot_xid_age to ordinarily be set relatively high, i.e., 1.5B+.

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Nathan Bossart
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