Re: Introduce XID age and inactive timeout based replication slot invalidation

On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 3:42 PM Bertrand Drouvot
 wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Looking at 0001:

Thanks for reviewing.

> 1 ===
>
> +       True if this logical slot conflicted with recovery (and so is now
> +       invalidated). When this column is true, check
>
> Worth to add back the physical slot mention "Always NULL for physical slots."?

Will change.

> 2 ===
>
> @@ -1023,9 +1023,10 @@ CREATE VIEW pg_replication_slots AS
>              L.wal_status,
>              L.safe_wal_size,
>              L.two_phase,
> -            L.conflict_reason,
> +            L.conflicting,
>              L.failover,
> -            L.synced
> +            L.synced,
> +            L.invalidation_reason
>
> What about making invalidation_reason close to conflict_reason?

Not required I think. One can pick the required columns in the SELECT
clause anyways.

> 3 ===
>
> - * Maps a conflict reason for a replication slot to
> + * Maps a invalidation reason for a replication slot to
>
> s/a invalidation/an invalidation/?

Will change.

> 4 ===
>
> While at it, shouldn't we also rename "conflict" to say "invalidation_cause" in
> InvalidatePossiblyObsoleteSlot()?

That's inline with our understanding about conflict vs invalidation,
and keeps the function generic. Will change.

> 5 ===
>
> + * rows_removed and wal_level_insufficient are only two reasons
>
> s/are only two/are the only two/?

Will change..

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