Re: Function to move the position of a replication slot

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Function to move the position of a replication slot
Date: 2017-09-02 22:20:28
Message-ID: CA+TgmobdKSWxibPvYq-mL93pggNvEda78T_12eLGppm3X=H1KA@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:30 PM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 8/31/17 08:19, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Rebased. Now named pg_advance_replication_slot. ERROR on logical slots.
>> Forward only.
>>
>> I think that, in the end, covered all the comments?
>
> I didn't see any explanation of what this would actually be useful for.
> I suppose you could skip over some changes you don't want replicated,
> but how do you find to what position to skip?
>
> Logical replication has a similar mechanism, using the function
> pg_replication_origin_advance(). Any overlap there? (Maybe the names
> could be aligned.)
> (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/logical-replication-conflicts.html)

I think you can use this to work around the absence of failover slots.

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Robert Haas
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