Re: Create replication slot in pg_basebackup if requested and not yet present

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 22.03.2017, 00:40 +0100 schrieb Michael Banck:
> I guess if we decide (physical) slots should not be created implicitly,
> then using the same UI as pg_receivewal makes sense for the sake of
> consistency, i.e. "--slot=name --create-slot [--if-not-exists]". That is
> rather verbose though and I don't think the --if-not-exists is great UX,
> but maybe there is some use-case for erroring out if a slot already
> exists that I haven't thought of.

Thinking about this some more, there's the case of somebody accidentally
using an already existing slot that was meant for another standby which
happens to be down just at that moment.

From some quick testing, that makes replication fail once the other
standby is started up again, but soon after the new standby is taken
down, replication picks up without apparent problems for the other
standby.

Michael

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