Re: Logical decoding

On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM Jethish Jethish <jethish777(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Is there is any option to perform logical decoding on an active
> replication slot.
> I'm trying to decode a replication slot but it throughs an error as below.
>
> ERROR: replication slot "my_sub" is active for PID 2525720
>

Hi Jethish,

You can by copying the LR slot

SELECT pg_copy_logical_replication_slot ( '<slot_name>', --source slot
'peek', --destination slot name
true, --lets make a temporary slot, so we don't have clean up after
ourselves
'test_decoding' --plugin name can be any LR plugin this one let's us see
what is going on
)

Then peek at what the slot is doing

SELECT * FROM pg_logical_slot_peek_changes('peek' , --name of the slot
NULL, --lsn number to start from can jump ahead,
1 ); --how many transaction to get back from the query this will return
multiple rows for each row affect by the transaction.

select pg_drop_replication_slot(<slot_name>) --how we drop the slot