Re: Replication slots and footguns

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> On 03/13/2014 05:28 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Well we may have kind of hosed ourselves, because the in-memory data
>> structures that represent the data structure have an in_use flag that
>> indicates whether the structure is allocated at all, and then an
>> active flag that indicates whether some backend is using it.  I never
>> liked that naming much.  Maybe we should go through and let in_use ->
>> allocated and active -> in_use.
>
> Wait, which one of those does pg_drop_replication_slot() care about?

Well... the slots that aren't in_use can't be dropped because they
don't exist in the first place.  The ones that aren't active can't be
dropped because somebody else is using them.  So both, sorta, I guess?

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