From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Robert Haas <rhaas(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pgsql: Introduce replication slots. |
Date: | 2014-02-01 09:09:24 |
Message-ID: | 20140201090924.GC17636@awork2.anarazel.de |
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On 2014-02-01 16:47:47 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Robert Haas <rhaas(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
> > Introduce replication slots.
> >
> > Replication slots are a crash-safe data structure which can be created
> > on either a master or a standby to prevent premature removal of
> > write-ahead log segments needed by a standby, as well as (with
> > hot_standby_feedback=on) pruning of tuples whose removal would cause
> > replication conflicts. Slots have some advantages over existing
> > techniques, as explained in the documentation.
> >
> > In a few places, we refer to the type of replication slots introduced
> > by this patch as "physical" slots, because forthcoming patches for
> > logical decoding will also have slots, but with somewhat different
> > properties.
>
> This patch changed basebackup.c so that it skips pg_replslot. It's OK
> to skip all files in that directory, but an empty pg_replslot must be
> included in the backup. Otherwise we cannot start PostgreSQL from
> the backup taken via pg_basebackup. Attached patch fixes this problem.
That's a pretty fair point. Not sure how that could escape my
notice. The patch does look sane to me.
I wonder if we additionally should add code to recreate pg_replslot on
startup, similar to pg_xlog?
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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