Re: min_safe_lsn column in pg_replication_slots view

From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: min_safe_lsn column in pg_replication_slots view
Date: 2020-07-04 06:18:47
Message-ID: CAA4eK1JahOLPRjVxnL78M4wrnk7FBHSGDBJXF3yg4qgcPHTXCA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 8:44 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 2020-Jul-01, Amit Kapila wrote:
>
> > Okay, but do we think it is better to display this in
> > pg_replication_slots or some new view like pg_stat_*_slots as being
> > discussed in [1]? It should not happen that we later decide to move
> > this or similar stats to that view.
>
> It seems that the main motivation for having some counters in another
> view is the ability to reset them; and resetting this distance value
> makes no sense, so I think it's better to have it in
> pg_replication_slots.
>

Fair enough. It would be good if we can come up with something better
than 'distance' for this column. Some ideas safe_wal_limit,
safe_wal_size?

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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