Re: RS_EPHEMERAL vs RS_TEMPORARY

Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> On 2020-02-25 08:30, Antonin Houska wrote:
> > I'm trying to figure out what's specific about RS_EPHEMERAL and RS_TEMPORARY
> > slot kinds. The following comment (see definition of the
> > ReplicationSlotPersistency enumeration) tells when each kind is dropped
>
> The general idea is that an "ephemeral" slot is a future persistent slot that
> is not completely initialized yet. If there is a crash and you find an
> ephemeral slot, you can clean it up. The name is perhaps a bit odd, you can
> think of it as an uninitialized one. A temporary slot is one that behaves
> like a temporary table: It is removed at the end of a session.
>
> Perhaps the implementation differences are not big or are none, but it's
> relevant for reporting. For example, the pg_replication_slots view shows
> which slots are temporary. You wouldn't want to show an ephemeral slot as
> temporary.

ok, so only comments seem to be the problem.

Anyway, the reason I started to think about it was that I noticed an Assert()
statement I considered inaccurate. Does this patch make sense?

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