Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 13:09:46 +0200
From: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com>
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To: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: WAL segments removed from primary despite the fact that logical
 replication slot needs it.
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On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 04:14:28PM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> One idea is to change log level to DEBUG2 so that we can print which
> files are removed by the server via
> RemoveOldXlogFiles()
> {
> ...
> elog(DEBUG2, "attempting to remove WAL segments older than log file %s",
> lastoff);
> ...
> }
> 
> If we can do this then at the very least we can know whether the
> required files are removed by the server or by some external
> application.

That should be doable. Will take some time to setup test env, and run
it. Will get back to you on this.

Best regards,

depesz