Re: Replication slot stats misgivings

Hi,

On 2021-03-30 10:13:29 +0530, vignesh C wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 6:28 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > Any chance you could write a tap test exercising a few of these cases?
> 
> I can try to write a patch for this if nobody objects.

Cool!

> > E.g. things like:
> >
> > - create a few slots, drop one of them, shut down, start up, verify
> >   stats are still sane
> > - create a few slots, shut down, manually remove a slot, lower
> >   max_replication_slots, start up
> 
> Here by "manually remove a slot", do you mean to remove the slot
> manually from the pg_replslot folder?

Yep - thereby allowing max_replication_slots after the shutdown/start to
be lower than the number of slots-stats objects.

Greetings,

Andres Freund