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From: Amit Kapila <[email protected]>
To: Drouvot, Bertrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Ashutosh Sharma <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Synchronizing slots from primary to standby
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:04:01 +0530
Message-ID: <CAA4eK1+F40sLfqsGbq_acjqEBt_AVfsRQ4J4idgOA1AHS3A+PQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 11:15 AM Drouvot, Bertrand
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 6/20/23 12:22 PM, Amit Kapila wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 9:56 PM Drouvot, Bertrand
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> In such a case (slot valid on the primary but invalidated on the standby) then I think we
> >> could drop and recreate the invalidated slot on the standby.
> >>
> >
> > Will it be safe? Because after recreating the slot, it will reserve
> > the new WAL location and build the snapshot based on that which might
> > miss some important information in the snapshot. For example, to
> > update the slot's position with new information from the primary, the
> > patch uses pg_logical_replication_slot_advance() which means it will
> > process all records and update the snapshot via
> > DecodeCommit->SnapBuildCommitTxn().
>
> Your concern is that the slot could have been consumed on the standby?
>
> I mean, if we suppose the "synchronized" slot can't be consumed on the standby then
> drop/recreate such an invalidated slot would be ok?
>

That also may not be sufficient because as soon as the slot is
invalidated/dropped, the required WAL could be removed on standby.

-- 
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.






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