Hi, The thread title doesn't really convey the topic under discussion, so changed it. IIRC, this has been mentioned by others as well in the thread.
On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 7:21 PM vignesh C <vignes...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Few comments: > 1) I feel if the user has specified a long delay there is a chance > that replication may not continue if the replication slot falls behind > the current LSN by more than max_slot_wal_keep_size. I feel we should > add this reference in the documentation of min_apply_delay as the > replication will not continue in this case. > This makes sense to me. > 2) I also noticed that if we have to shut down the publisher server > with a long min_apply_delay configuration, the publisher server cannot > be stopped as the walsender waits for the data to be replicated. Is > this behavior ok for the server to wait in this case? If this behavior > is ok, we could add a log message as it is not very evident from the > log files why the server could not be shut down. > I think for this case, the behavior should be the same as for physical replication. Can you please check what is behavior for the case you are worried about in physical replication? Note, we already have a similar parameter for recovery_min_apply_delay for physical replication. -- With Regards, Amit Kapila.
