Re: Slot's restart_lsn may point to removed WAL segment after hard restart unexpectedly

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 4:03 AM Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> > > I have a question - is there any interest to backport the solution into
> > > existing major releases?
> >
> > As long as this is the bug, it should be backpatched to all supported
> > affected releases.
>
> Yes, but I think we cannot back-patch the proposed fix to back
> branches as it changes the ReplicationSlot struct defined in slot.h,
> which breaks ABI compatibility.

Yes, and I think Vitaly already proposed to address this issue. This
aspect also needs to be carefully reviewed for sure.

On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM Vitaly Davydov <v(dot)davydov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> wrote:
> I can prepare a patch where restart_lsn_flushed stored
> outside of ReplicationSlot structure and doesn't affect the existing API.

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Regards,
Alexander Korotkov
Supabase