| From: | Ronan Dunklau <ronan(dot)dunklau(at)aiven(dot)io> |
|---|---|
| To: | Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar(dot)ahmad(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bdrouvot(at)amazon(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, tushar <tushar(dot)ahuja(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "[pgdg] Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Rahila Syed <rahila(dot)syed(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Minimal logical decoding on standbys |
| Date: | 2021-08-02 15:47:14 |
| Message-ID: | 7574277.rk4qtukel5@aivenronan |
| Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-hackers |
Le lundi 2 août 2021, 17:31:46 CEST Drouvot, Bertrand a écrit :
> > I think the beahviour when dropping a database on the primary should be
> > documented, and proper procedures for handling it correctly should be
> > suggested.
> >
> > Something along the lines of:
> >
> > "If a database is dropped on the primary server, the logical replication
> > slot on the standby will be dropped as well. This means that you should
> > ensure that the client usually connected to this slot has had the
> > opportunity to stream the latest changes before the database is dropped."
>
> I am not sure we should highlight this as part of this patch.
>
> I mean, the same would currently occur on a non standby if you drop a
> database that has a replication slot linked to it.
The way I see it, the main difference is that you drop an additional object on
the standby, which doesn't exist and that you don't necessarily have any
knowledge of on the primary. As such, I thought it would be better to be
explicit about it to warn users of that possible case.
Regards,
--
Ronan Dunklau
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Andres Freund | 2021-08-02 15:49:59 | Re: EXEC_BACKEND vs bgworkers without BGWORKER_SHMEM_ACCESS |
| Previous Message | Tom Lane | 2021-08-02 15:40:27 | Re: Corrected documentation of data type for the logical replication message formats. |