postgres 13 BTW On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 10:58 AM Willy-Bas Loos <willy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi! > > I'm looking for a way to find out if there are still replication slots > active for a publication before dropping the publication in an automated > way. The idea is that the publication is thought not to be needed any > longer, but we want to make sure. > > I'm having trouble finding a link between a publication, the subscriptions > and the replication slots. Especially when you don't want to make > assumptions about any subscriber nodes, so you are restricted to the > publisher node. > > The best I could find was a query listed in pg_stat_activity that lists > the slot name and the publication name: > START_REPLICATION SLOT "my_slot" LOGICAL 5DD1/3E56D360 (proto_version '1', > publication_names '"my_publication"') > > I don't like the idea of using string manipulation on such query strings > to get the information I need. Postgres must have a way to compose this > query. > Can anyone tell me a way to find replication slots that belong to a > publication? > > -- > Willy-Bas Loos > -- Willy-Bas Loos
