Re: behave of --create-slot option

2018-05-29 16:53 GMT+02:00 Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>:

> 2018-05-29 1:31 GMT-03:00 Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> > I hope so I understand to motivation for this option - but I see issues:
> >
> > 1. pg_basebackup can fail from some other reasons, but there is not
> special
> > status for this issue.
> > 2. when I use this option in any script, then I should to remove possibly
> > exists slot before, to minimize risk of fail of this command.
> >
> If pg_basebackup failed for some other reason *after* the replication
> slot was created (say, permission problem) then we should try to
> cleanup the old slot. That should be the behavior if we want to try to
> be idempotent ("try" because if we have a network problem it won't be
> possible to remove the replication slot).
>

It has sense for me

Pavel

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