Re: "snapshot too large" error when initializing logical replication (9.4)

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Steve Singer <steve(at)ssinger(dot)info>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: "snapshot too large" error when initializing logical replication (9.4)
Date: 2014-11-17 14:52:38
Message-ID: 20141117145238.GD27042@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-11-17 11:51:54 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andres Freund wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2014-10-25 18:09:36 -0400, Steve Singer wrote:
> > > I sometimes get the error "snapshot too large" from my logical replication
> > > walsender process when in response to a CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT.
> >
> > Yes. That's possible if 'too much' was going on until a consistent point
> > was reached. I think we can just use a much larger size for the array
> > if necessary.
> >
> > I've attached patch for this. Could you try whether that helps? I don't
> > have a testcase handy that reproduces the problem.
>
> You haven't pushed this, have you?

No, but it's on my todo list.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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