Re: repeated decoding of prepared transactions

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 9:32 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> If by successfully confirmed, you mean that once the subscriber node
> has received, it won't be sent again then as far as I know that is not
> true. We rely on the flush location sent by the subscriber to advance
> the decoding locations. We update the flush locations after we apply
> the transaction's commit successfully. Also, after the restart, we use
> the replication origin's last flush location as a point from where we
> need the transactions and the origin's progress is updated at commit
> time.
>
> OTOH, If by successfully confirmed, you mean that once the subscriber
> has applied the complete transaction (including commit), then you are
> right that it won't be sent again.

I meant - once the subscriber has advanced the flush location.

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