Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PATCH] Fix drop replication slot blocking insteadof returning error

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:04:33PM +0200, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Noah Misch wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 03:38:20PM +0200, Simone Gotti wrote:
> > > I noticed that in postgres 10beta3, calling pg_drop_replication_slot on an
> > > active slot will block until it's released instead of returning an error
> > > like
> > > done in pg 9.6. Since this is a change in the previous behavior and the docs
> > > wasn't changed I made a patch to restore the previous behavior.
> 
> > > after git commit 9915de6c1cb calls to pg_drop_replication_slot or the
> > > replication protocol DROP_REPLICATION_SLOT command will block when a
> > > slot is in use instead of returning an error as before (as the doc
> > > states).
> > > 
> > > This patch will set nowait to true to restore the previous
> > > behavior.
> 
> > The above-described topic is currently a PostgreSQL 10 open item.
> 
> Looking at it now -- next report tomorrow.

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