Re: replication_slots usability issue

On October 29, 2018 1:31:56 PM EDT, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>-Hackers,
>
>
>Working on 9.6 today (unsure if fixed in newer versions). Had an issue
>where the wal was 280G despite max_wal_size being 8G. Found out there
>were stale replication slots from a recent base backup. I went to drop
>the replication slots and found that since the wal_level was set to
>minimal vs replica or higher, I couldn't drop the replication slot.
>Clearly that makes sense for creating a replication slot but it seems
>like an artificial limitation for dropping them.

Uh, huh? How did you manage to start a server with existing slots with that configuration? It should have errored out
atstart... 

Andres

Andres

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