Re: POC: enable logical decoding when wal_level = 'replica' without a server restart

On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM shveta malik <shveta(dot)malik(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Another thing I noticed in v34 is that, due to the change in
> show_effective_wal_level(), a standby now reports effective_wal_level
> = 'logical' when wal_level = 'logical' is set on the standby, even if
> the primary has effective_wal_level='replica'. Is this change in
> behavior intentional?
>
> It seems to contradict the documented behavior as well:
>
> + On standby servers, <varname>effective_wal_level</varname> matches
> + the value of <varname>effective_wal_level</varname> from the most
> + upstream server in the replication chain.

No, it should be fixed. Thank you for pointing this out.

> ~~
>
> I see that XLogLogicalInfoXactCache is removed, but it is still
> referenced at few places:
>
> +extern PGDLLEXPORT int XLogLogicalInfoXactCache;
>
> +/*
> + * A process local cache of LogicalDecodingCtl->xlog_logical_info. This is
> + * initialized at process startup time, and could be updated when absorbing
> + * the process barrier signal in ProcessBarrierUpdateXLogLogicalInfo().
> + * See the comments of XLogLogicalInfoXactCache too for details of how this
> + * cache value is used within a transaction.
> + */

Will fix.

Regards,

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