Re: Slot issues

Hi,

On 2018-10-15 00:15:53 +0530, bhargav kamineni wrote:
> Hi Team,
>
> I am getting this ERROR while starting my second slave server
>
> PANIC:  too many replication slots active before shutdown
> HINT:  Increase max_replication_slots and try again.
>
> max_replication_slots on my master is 2 and one of them is already active
> for another slave,
> do i need to increase this parameter for the need of working of another
> slave ? if so whats the reason ?

You're getting that error on the standby, not the primary, right?   In
all likelihood the problem is that you copied over replication slots to
your standby server, but that *on the standby* haven't set
max_replication_slots high enough.

Greetings,

Andres Freund